![]() Years later, happily married to her second husband, Tony, and living in a house on the marsh, she wrote to L and invited him to stay, offering him their second place, a cottage in the woods, where he might work. His paintings had a profound effect on her, leaving her in a “strange, exalted state”, and she sensed a deep kinship with the artist. Some time ago, when M was living through a crisis, she found herself drawn to the works of a famous artist, known as L. The novel opens with M, a writer, telling someone called Jeffers about a recent upheaval in her life. ![]() Lawrence’s stay with her in Taos, New Mexico. ![]() Second Place is inspired by Mabel Dodge Luhan’s memoir of D.H. The answer comes with Second Place (Faber Fiction), a work that doesn’t mark a break with Cusk’s distrust of narrative, but heralds a deepening of her investigations. ![]() A landmark series that gutted the novel of many of its conventions, it was hard to imagine what Cusk would do with fiction after this. ![]() In Rachel Cusk’s extraordinary Outline trilogy (2014–18), her narrator adopts a stance of radical passivity she rarely talks, mainly listens and ventriloquises the stories of others. After her landmark ‘Outline’ trilogy, the author’s latest novel is inspired by a memoir about D.H. ![]()
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