A Life's Work is Rachel Cusk's controversial, funny and moving account of her first few years of motherhood.
Rachel Cusk's controversial, funny and moving account of her first few years of motherhood.
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A Life's Work is Rachel Cusk's controversial, funny and moving account of her first few years of motherhood.
Rachel Cusk's controversial, funny and moving account of her first few years of motherhood.
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When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children were taken into care, that was she was unfit to look after them. Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself and the book as protests grew about the its honest, gritty account of the misery of those early months. It is a seminal, stand-out book on the complications of being an ambivalent mum in an age of white-washed, Annabel Karmel'd new families.
About the Author
Rachel Cusk is the author of nine novels and three works of non-fiction, which have won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes. In 2015, Cusk's version of Medea was staged at the Almeida Theatre.
Rachel Cusk's controversial, funny and moving account of her first few years of motherhood. When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children were taken into care, that was she was unfit to look after them. Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself and the book as protests grew about the its honest, gritty account of the misery of those early months. It is a seminal, stand-out book on the complications of being an ambivalent mum in an age of white-washed, Annabel Karmel'd new families.
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