[Read by Kate Reading]
A luminous, powerful novel that establishes Rachel Cusk as one of the finest
writers in the English language.
A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking
- about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired,
family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is
established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives.
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist
teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in
Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets