I've finished The Great Fortune, the first of the three books that make up this trilogy. ‘Such a war! An unexploded squib of a war! What folly ever to start it. The great nations think only of power. They do not think of the ones who suffer for such a war.’ War has well-and-truly broken out, an...
I picked up Outline because and only because I've heard Cusk's name being dropped as a potential Man Booker Prize contender this year. If she is nominated, it will be for her newest novel, Kudos; but as her newest is the third in a trilogy, I did not want to find myself already two books behind when...
Loved her short story 'Portraits'
Interesting enough if it was a set of discrete short stories, but as a novel it requires more progression. 'Over the course of a day in an English...' instantly spells Dalloway- that's some fierce competition.
Just not my style of book, couldn't get past the first chapter.
Log in with Facebook 
