![]() Years later, happily married to her second husband, Tony, and living in a house on the marsh, she wrote to L and invited him to stay, offering him their second place, a cottage in the woods, where he might work. His paintings had a profound effect on her, leaving her in a “strange, exalted state”, and she sensed a deep kinship with the artist. Some time ago, when M was living through a crisis, she found herself drawn to the works of a famous artist, known as L. The novel opens with M, a writer, telling someone called Jeffers about a recent upheaval in her life. Lawrence’s stay with her in Taos, New Mexico. Second Place is inspired by Mabel Dodge Luhan’s memoir of D.H. ![]() The answer comes with Second Place (Faber Fiction), a work that doesn’t mark a break with Cusk’s distrust of narrative, but heralds a deepening of her investigations. A landmark series that gutted the novel of many of its conventions, it was hard to imagine what Cusk would do with fiction after this. In Rachel Cusk’s extraordinary Outline trilogy (2014–18), her narrator adopts a stance of radical passivity she rarely talks, mainly listens and ventriloquises the stories of others. ![]() After her landmark ‘Outline’ trilogy, the author’s latest novel is inspired by a memoir about D.H. ![]()
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