

The Country Life
Author: Rachel Cusk
Narrator: Jenny Sterlin
Unabridged: 13 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 08/22/2008
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women
Author: Rachel Cusk
Narrator: Jenny Sterlin
Unabridged: 13 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 08/22/2008
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women
Rachel Cusk was born in Canada in 1967 and spent much of her childhood in Los Angeles before finishing her education at St Mary's Convent, Cambridge. She read English at New College, Oxford, and has travelled extensively in Spain and Central America. She is the author of six novels. The first, Saving Agnes (1993), won the Whitbread First Novel Award. A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother (2001) is a personal exploration of motherhood. In The Lucky Ones (2003) she uses a series of five narratives, loosely linked by the experience of parenthood, to write of life's transformations, of what separates us from those we love and what binds us to those we no longer understand. In 2003, Rachel Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. Her latest novel is Outline (2014).
This novel is a fantastically successful parody of a Eighteenth Century novel in which a young woman encounters all sorts of terrors in her first solo foray into the wilds of the country in Sussex. I had the advantage of listening to this novel, brilliantly read by Jenny Sterlin, produced by Recorde......more
I have to confess that this is the first book I have read by RC that I have not loved. This narrator is a little bit the opposite to her narrator in the outline trilogy , or more the transparency of one. The narrator in this novel is so present she is distracting. In her smartness she lets you see l......more
The first time I read this book, I read it as an intelligent and witty farce. But now, some 14 years later, I see darkness beneath the humorous incidents. The first half of the book is still laugh-out-loud funny as Stella enters the odd world of the Madden family and generates a series of absurd mis......more
Probably one of the best books I've ever read. I absolutely loved Rachel's style of writing. The topic was somewhat banal and wasn't really that suspensful but I loved the English, syntax and style. I've probably re-read it about 3 times over the past 4 years. It takes a few pages to 'get into it' b......more
An off-beat, slightly bizarre but laugh-out-loud lark of a novel. The protagonist, Stella, abandons her life in London to become a country au pair. Stella is at once the perpetrator and the victim of her own wacky circumstances; she reacts to life with a shriek and a shrug. There isn't much a plot,......more