Saving Agnes
By (Author) Rachel Cusk
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
5th November 2019
3rd October 2019
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
224
Width 130mm, Height 195mm, Spine 15mm
188g
Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award
Agnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally middle-class and incurably romantic, Agnes finds herself chronically confused by the most basic interactions. Life and love go on without her, but with a little facade she can pass herself off as a success. Beneath the fiction, however, the burden of truth becomes harder to bear.
Rachel Cusk is the author of ten novels and three works of non-fiction, which have won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes. In 2015, Cusk's version of Medea was staged at the Almeida Theatre.