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Life of M
- Author
- Rachel Cusk
- Narrator
- Rachel Cusk, Vincenzo Latronico
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 25 August 2026
- Run Time
- 5 hours 4 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
An irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty and truth --
'Truly masterful, her best work so far. I loved it' Vincenzo Latronico
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?
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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.
'Electrifying . . . a deeply enjoyable addition to Cusk's canon concerning brilliant and divided
women' Megan Nolan,
Observer
'[Cusk] is a disciple of the truth, and she helps us to see' Lucy Jones,
Independent
'Roll up, wave a flag and join the crowds to watch Rachel Cusk continue her relentless march through life'
Irish Times
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Details
- Author
- Rachel Cusk
- Narrator
- Rachel Cusk, Vincenzo Latronico
- Duration
- 5 hours 4 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 August 2026
- ISBN
- 9780571404612
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
An irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty and truth -- 'Truly masterful, her best work so far. I loved it' Vincenzo Latronico 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. 'Electrifying . . . a deeply enjoyable addition to Cusk's canon concerning brilliant and divided women' Megan Nolan, Observer '[Cusk] is a disciple of the truth, and she helps us to see' Lucy Jones, Independent 'Roll up, wave a flag and join the crowds to watch Rachel Cusk continue her relentless march through life' Irish Times
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