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The second book in Rachel Cusk´s critically-acclaimed trilogy, shortlisted for the Goldsmith Prize.

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In the wake of her family´s collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, and practical - as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.

Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility and the mystery of change.

´[Transit] confirms that one of the most fascinating projects in contemporary fiction is unfolding in Rachel Cusk´s trilogy.´ Adam Foulds

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An extraordinary piece of writing - stunningly bold, original and humane. Joanna Kavenna Daily Telegraph

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Cusk, Rachel
Rachel Cusk was born in 1967 and is the author of eight novels: Saving Agnes, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award, The Temporary, The Country Life, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, The Lucky Ones, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award, In the Fold, Arlington Park, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, The Bradshaw Variations and Outline. Her non-fiction books are A Life´s Work, The Last Supper and Aftermath. In 2003 she was chosen as one of Granta´s Best of Young Novelists.

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