Rachel Cusk

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1995
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Outline

1 - Outline (Jan-2015)
2 - Transit (Jan-2017)
3 - Kudos (Jun-2018)

Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • The Temporary

    Rachel Cusk’s second novel is a ruthless, surprising story of work, gender, and control.Ralph Loman is working in an unsatisfying job at a free London newspaper when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly ...

  • The Country Life

    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Somerset Maugham AwardThe Country Life, Rachel Cusk’s third novel, is a rich and subtle story about embarrassment, awkwardness, and being alone; about families, or the lack of them; and about l...

  • Saving Agnes

    The acclaimed winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award, by the author of The Country LifeChronically confused, terminally middle class, hopelessly romantic, Agnes Day lives with her two best friends in the London suburbs and works at an obscure trad...

  • In the Fold

    Returning to the site of a garden party where he made lasting friendships with several eccentric characters, Michael hopes to escape his troubled marriage and brings along his taciturn young son, but discovers the place to be fraught with long-standi...

  • The Lucky Ones

    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 rar...

  • Arlington Park

    Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb very much like its American counterparts, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the dubious accomplishments of ci...

  • The Bradshaw Variations

    From the award-winning novelist Rachel Cusk comes a timely and absorbing story of the harmony and discord of family life. Since quitting work to look after his eight-year-old daughter, Alexa, Thomas Bradshaw has found solace and nourishment in his...

  • Outline

    Outline - 1

    A luminous, powerful novel that establishes Rachel Cusk as one of the finest writers in the English language A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking―about their destination, their careers, their families....

  • A Life's Work

    A New York Times Book Review Notable Book, A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother is multi-award-winning author Rachel Cusk’s honest memoir that captures the life-changing wonders of motherhood.

    Selected by the New York Times as one of t...



  • Transit

    Outline - 2

    In the wake of her family’s collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions―personal, moral, artistic, and practical―as she endeavors to construct a new reality ...

  • Kudos

    Outline - 3

    Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of OUTLINE and TRANSIT, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos. A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to...

  • Coventry

  • Second Place

    A haunting fable of art, family, and fate from the author of the Outline trilogy.A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes hi...

  • Parade

    From Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, comes this startling, exhilarating novel that once again expands the notion of what fiction can be and do.Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wi...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rachel Cusk has published 14 books.

The next book by Rachel Cusk, Parade, will be published in June 2024.

The first book by Rachel Cusk, The Temporary, was published in August 1995.

Yes. Rachel Cusk has 1 series.
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