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She was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2003.

Saving Agnes won the Whitbread First Novel Award, The Country Life won the Somerset Maugham Award and subsequent books have been shortlisted for the Orange Prize, Whitbread Prize, Goldsmiths Prize, Bailey’s Prize, and the Giller Prize and Governor General’s Award in Canada.

Her most recent novel, Kudos, the final part of the Outline trilogy, will be published in the US and the UK in May 2018. Her first novel, Saving Agnes, was published in 1993. Rachel Cusk is the author of nine novels, three non-fiction works, a play, and numerous shorter essays and memoirs. 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).

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