pbA Finalist for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Baileys Women's Prize for FictionbbrbOne of iThe New York Times'i Top Ten Books of the YearbbrbNamed a bbAi New York Times Book Reviewi Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by iThe New Yorkeri, i Vogue, NPR, The Guardiani, iThe Independenti, i Glamour, i andi The Globe and Mailib pbChosen as one of fifteen remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write in the 21st century by the book critics of iThe New York Timesi b pRachel Cusk'si Outline iis a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longi