When Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children, she has no idea of the trials and wonders that lie in store. Their journey leads them to both the expected and the surprising, all seen through Cusk's sharp and humane perspective.

A novel about writing and talking, self-effacement and self-expression, about the desire to create and the human art of self-portraiture in which that desire finds its universal form.

The paperback of the final part of Rachel Cusk's hugely acclaimed trilogy - after Outline (2014) and Transit (2016).

Author of the Booker-longlisted novel Second Place'Cements her reputation as one of the most fierce and elegant chroniclers of how we live now.' Stephanie Merritt, ObserverCoventry is a collection of essays about choices, womanhood and art.

New paperback edition of the novel from the dazzlingly talented author of the Baileys-shortlisted Outline.