![]() ![]() Regrouping, she has forged a more dynamic and liberating form, which cocks a snook at fiction's staples of plot and dialogue. In 2014, Cusk admitted that they had made her lose faith in narrative even fictional invention felt "fake and embarrassing". Outline and Transit continue Cusk's obsession with divorce's fallout but with a new approach prompted by these attacks. "In Cusk's world," Camilla Long wrote in The Sunday Times, "even the canapes are victims." A Life's Work, her clear-eyed 2001 account of new motherhood, saw her typecast in some quarters as self-pitying and unkind, but it was Aftermath, the raw 2012 account of the death of her 10-year marriage, which attracted the most venom. The author of seven jittery novels of suburban manners, she is better known for the vitriol surrounding her non-fictional depiction of personal events. ![]() This isn't new terrain for 49-year-old Cusk. ![]()
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