PositiveThe Sydney Morning Herald (AUS)We hear a lot these days about autofiction, a kind of creative writing close to reality: perhaps only the names are changed. But writers have been doing this for a very long time ... Anyone who knows anything about Cusk’s work can’t expect to get an easy ride. Her writing is acclaimed because of its relentless drilling down below the surfaces of personality and character, exposing people’s buried desires and sometimes a longing, as in M’s case, to discover who they really are – or even if they exist at all. Friends of Cusk: you have been warned.
