{"product_id":"life-of-m-9780571399802","title":"Life of M: From the author of the Outline trilogy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW **\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the critically-acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, an irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty and truth -- and a blazing renovation of the form\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography. She liked the idea. She’s a good sport. Would you just make it up? she said.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eM is a film star, and one of the most recognisable faces of our time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging, spaces are altered to accommodate her, time can be rearranged. For her, it seems, the rules of reality have melted away. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow M has agreed to let a stranger write her biography. Their project will sprawl and expand: to the olive groves and holiday beaches where M spends her days; across hotel rooms, bourgeois facades, film sets; through endless modern cities. It is hard not to feel ugly next to M, hard not to feel insignificant. But what truths – about the very experience of living – might this proximity allow the writer to briefly capture? And what in the end will M make of their work? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLife of M\u003c\/i\u003e, Rachel Cusk has again fashioned a new kind of literature. A novel stripped of artifice, it takes our emptiness and fills it with grace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘It is truly masterful, her best work so far. I loved it’ Vincenzo Latronico \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[Cusk] is a disciple of the truth, and she helps us to see' Lucy Jones, \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Roll up, wave a flag and join the crowds to watch Rachel Cusk continue her relentless march through life' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 27 August 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePage count:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Height 144 mm; Width 225 mm; Thickness 23 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780571399802\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Rachel Cusk","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50169814843642,"sku":"9780571399802","price":13.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/9780571399802.jpg?v=1787611171","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/life-of-m-9780571399802","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}