Her characters are constantly struggling to understand themselves. In a way, the author’s life is most accurately represented not when she talks about it but, rather, when she writes fiction. And all the literary experimenting she did made her writing style vigilant, precise and interrogative. Her words kept her company for eight confusing years. Once Cusk started writing, she couldn’t stop. Mary’s Covenant School allowed her to meet her inner self, to understand who she truly was, to make sense of the thoughts that frequently crossed her mind and the notions that formed the foundations of her beliefs.Īnd in spending so much time in her mind, the author discovered her own unique voice. She learned to separate the goings on of the world outside from the peace she was determined to instill in her spirit.

She did not have the protection of her parents and she could no longer hide from the world behind the walls of an inviting home. The institution changed the author’s life because, for the very first time, Cusk was on her own. Mary’s Convent School, Cambridge that the seeds of the author that she would become were planted.Ĭusk was eleven when she started her first term at the boarding school. She also did quite a bit of writing but it wasn’t until she went to St. She learned early on that she could change homes and locations and still remain herself.Ī student of New College, Oxford, Rachel Cusk read a lot when she was young. Cusk admits that she reached a point in her life when she started coping with difficulties by packing up her things and moving on to new places.īut the author doesn’t believe that the attitude cost her much in the long run. The author was eight-years-old when they finally returned to England.īecause of her nomadic upbringing, Cusk was always fascinated by people who lived in the same places and the same houses for years and even decades at a time.Įven after the author grew into adulthood, she never lost her migratory approach to life. Her parents got married in the 1960s and then left England, making a home in Canada where Cusk was born.īut they did not stay long, eventually migrating to Los Angeles. She was just one of four children, born to an adventurous couple. She has written a number of critically acclaimed but highly controversial autobiographical novels that delve into the challenges of her life as a writer, a mother, and a woman.

Rachel Cusk is an award-winning Canadian author.

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