Life of M

<p><b>** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW **</b><br><b><br>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</b><br><i><br>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.</i><br><br>M is a film star, and one of the most recognisable faces of our time. <br><br>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. <br><br>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? <br><br>In <i>Life of M</i>, Rachel Cusk has again fashioned a new kind of literature. A novel stripped of artifice, it takes our emptiness and fills it with grace.<br><b><br>‘It is truly masterful, her best work so far. I loved it’ Vincenzo Latronico </b><br><b>''[Cusk] is a disciple of the truth, and she helps us to see'' Lucy Jones, <i>Independent</i></b><br><b>''Roll up, wave a flag and join the crowds to watch Rachel Cusk continue her relentless march through life'' <i>Irish Times </i></b></p>