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Stella Benson answers a classified ad for an au pair, arriving in a tiny Sussex village that's home to a family that is slightly larger than life. Her hopes for the Maddens may be high, but her station among them is low and remote. It soon becomes clear that Stella falls short of even the meager specifications her new role requires, most visibly in the area of "aptitude for the country life." But what drove her to leave her home, job, and life in London in the first place? Why has she severed all ties with her parents?...

A Finalist for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Baileys Women s Prize for Fiction
One of The New York Times' Top Ten Books of the Year
Named a A New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vogue, NPR, The Guardian, The Independent, Glamour, and The Globe and Mail

Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot...

Set over the course of one rainy day in a London suburb, Arlington Park is a viciously funny portrait of a group of young mothers, each bound to their families, each straining for some kind of independence. As the hours pass, Rachel Cusk's graceful, incisive prose passes through the experience of each mother, following them all from the early-morning scrambling, through car trips and visits to the mall, and finally to a dinner party in the evening, when the husbands return and all the conflicts come to the surface. Penetrating and empathetic, Arlington Park is "a...

Eine Frau lädt einen berühmten Maler in ihr Haus in einer abgelegenen Küstenregion ein. Es ist ein erdrückend heißer Sommer, und sie hofft, sein künstlerischer Blick werde das Geheimnis ihres Lebens und ihrer Landschaft lüften. Nur kommt es ganz anders. Denn nicht nur weigert er sich, sie zu malen, er meidet sie geradezu, scheint sie regelrecht vorzuführen in ihrer Bedürftigkeit. Und verbündet sich unterdessen mit ihrem Mann, und nähert er sich nicht auch ihrer Tochter an? (Deren Schönheit und Jugend sie nicht gleichgültig lassen.) Was soll sie tun? Sich kampflos ergeben? Oder...

Mutterschaft ist ein Prozess, in dem sich ein gewöhliches Leben in ein Chaos aus mächtigen Leidenschaften verwandelt. Rachel Cusk seziert diese Erfahrung am eigenen Leib - und das auf eine so ehrliche und unsentimentale Weise, dass sie damit zur »meistgehassten Schriftstellerin Großbritanniens« (The Guardian) geworden ist.

Rachel Cusk erzählt ein Jahr aus ihrem Leben als Mutter, und ihr Bericht wird zu vielen Geschichten - zu einem Abgesang auf Freiheit, Schlaf und Zeit, zu einer Lektion in Demut und harter Arbeit, zu einer Reise zu den Urgründen...

Since quitting work to look after his eight-year-old daughter, Alexa, Thomas Bradshaw has found solace and nourishment in his daily piano study. But his parents and in-laws wonder why he has swapped roles with Tonie Swann, his intense, intellectual wife. And how can this be good for their daughter?

Tonie is increasingly seduced away from domestic life by the headier world of work, where long-forgotten memories of ambition are awakened. She finds herself outside their tight family circle, alive to previously unimaginable possibilities.

Over the course of a year full of crisis...

A young pregnant mother wrestles with an utterly changed life; a new father searches for a sign of the man he used to be; a daughter yearns for a lost childhood; and a mother reaches out in bewilderment to a child she can't fully understand. A rare novel that illuminates "the bustling concourses of life" without sacrificing emotional depth and complexity, The Lucky Ones confirms Rachel Cusk's place among our most incisive writers.