Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk was born in Canada in 1967 to British parents, and lived in the United States until 1974, when the family returned to England. Her most recent works are the memoir of a 3-month family stay in Italy, The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy (2009); and The Bradshaw Variations (2009), a novel. She is also the author of Saving Agnes (1993), which won the Whitbread First Novel Award, Country Life (1997), which won a Somerset Maugham Award and Arlington Park (2006). A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother (2001) is her personal account of the experience of motherhood. She lives on Exmoor with her family.