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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ISBN13: 9780571350933
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 240
Edition: Main
Publication Date: 01 Jul 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 198(H)x129(L)x14(W)205
Weight (gm): 205

Author Biography

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.

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