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Cusk’s original and powerful writing captures brilliant and startling insights into facing a great loss and the trauma of change.

And Kudos (2018) has been called “intellectually entrancing” ( The Globe and Mail), “radical and beautiful” ( The New Yorker) and “bracingly compelling” ( Vogue).īrought together in one exquisite collection, this groundbreaking trilogy follows Faye, a novelist facing divorce and family collapse, as she teaches creative writing in Athens, rebuilds a family in London and travels to European cities for literary events-along the way meeting people who help to reveal the merit in suffering, the fear that accompanies mysterious, inescapable change, and the hope of new possibilities that open from it. Transit (2017) has been called “dreamlike” ( Toronto Star), “extraordinary” ( The Daily Telegraph), and “a work of stunning beauty, deep insight and great originality” ( The New York Times Book Review). She can also be seen as a spiritual forerunner of confessional writers like Karl Ove Knausgaard, Annie Ernaux, Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy. Outline (2015) was a finalist for both the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Rachel Cusk’s ambitious Outline trilogy has received acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. “These three novels can now be appreciated - and will surely be looked back on - as one of the literary masterpieces of our time.” - The Washington Post “A stellar accomplishment.” - The Guardian (novel) Outline is a novel by Rachel Cusk, 1 the first in a trilogy known as The Outline trilogy, 2 which also contains the novels Transit and Kudos.

“These novels are among the most important written in this century so far.” - The Globe and Mail