New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2018 • Amazon Editors' Top 100 of 2018Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline & Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power.A woman writer visits aEuropein flux, where questions of personal & political identity are rising to the surface & the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss & renewal. Within the rituals of literary culture,Fayefinds the human story in disarray amid differing attitudes toward the public performance of the creative persona. She begins to identify among the people she meets a tension between truth & representation, a fissure that accrues great dramatic force asKudosreaches a profound & beautiful climax.In this conclusion to her groundbreaking trilogy,Cuskunflinchingly explores the nature of family & art, justice & love, & the ultimate value of suffering. She is without question one of our most important living writers.°°°Rachel Cuskwas born inCanadain1967and spent much of her childhood inLos Angelesbefore finishing her education at St Mary's Convent, Cambridge. She read English at New College, Oxford, & has travelled extensively inSpain&Central America. She is the author ofsix novels. The first,Saving Agnes(1993), won the Whitbread First Novel Award.A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother(2001) is a personal exploration of motherhood. InThe Lucky Ones(2003) she uses a series of five narratives, loosely linked by the experience of parenthood, to write of life's transformations, of what separates us from those we love & what binds us to those we no longer understand. In 2003,Rachel Cuskwas nominated byGrantamagazine as one of20 'Best of Young British Novelists'.Her latest novel isOutline(2014).