Author rachel cusk biography
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Author rachel cusk biography
Rachel Cusk
British writer (born 1967)
Rachel CuskFRSL (born 8 February 1967)[1] is a British novelist and writer.
Childhood and education
Cusk was born in Saskatoon to British parents in 1967, the second of four children with an older sister and two younger brothers, and spent much of her early childhood in Los Angeles.[1][2] She moved to her parents' native Britain in 1974,[1] settling in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.[3] She comes from a Catholic family, and was educated at St Mary's Convent in Cambridge.[1] She studied English at New College, Oxford.[4]
Career
Early works
Cusk's first novel, Saving Agnes, published in 1993, received the Whitbread First Novel Award.[5] Its themes of femininity and social satire remained central to her work over the next decade.
She followed this in 1997 with The Country Life, a comedic novel inspired by Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm and Charlot