Rachel Cusk is the author of three memoirsA Life s Work, The Last Supper and Aftermathand seven novelsSaving Agnes, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award; The Temporary; The Country Life, which won a Somerset Maugham Award; The Lucky Ones; In the Fold; Arlington Park; and The Bradshaw Variations. She was chosen as one of Granta s Best of Young British Novelists 2003. She lives in London.