LIFE OF M

AVAILABLE FOR PRE ORDER NOW From the critically acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy an irresistible novel of fame power beauty and truth and a blazing renovation of the form A little while ago I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography She liked the idea She s a good sport Would you just make it up she said M is a film star and one of the most recognisable faces of our time With such fame her life has the appearance of freedom people are instantly obliging spaces are altered to accommodate her time can be rearranged For her it seems the rules of reality have melted away Now M has agreed to let a stranger write her biography Their project will sprawl and expand to the olive groves and holiday beaches where M spends her days across hotel rooms bourgeois facades film sets through endless modern cities It is hard not to feel ugly next to M hard not to feel insignificant But what truths about the very experience of living might this proximity allow the writer to briefly capture And what in the end will M make of their work In Life of M Rachel Cusk has again fashioned a new kind of literature A novel stripped of artifice it takes our emptiness and fills it with grace It is truly masterful her best wor