This book recently featured in Radio 4's mid-morning quarter-hour slot for book readings. Of necessity, these readings are of works abridged to fit the time available. In this form I very much enjoyed the chosen pieces, some of which brought tears to my eyes, and I subsequently purchased my own copy of "Coventry".
I am now about at the end of the section I would suggest is the primary element of this collection, which is to say Cusk's deeply internalised, semi-autobiographical musings on her life as child, wife, mother, and woman. In their full form, without abridgement, I have found these slices of self-analysis rather too rich, like a slice of cake whose overly dense topping of butter cream seems an unnecessary additive. Multiple and dense metaphor is employed relentlessly in her unapologetically self-obsessed musings on her relationships throughout her life; with her parents, her children, her partner and, of course, herself. Frequently, these present dense, distracted thickets of inner dialogue that are not always easy to penetrate. And her obsession with the relationship between the opposing ideas of "truth" and "story", a seeming conundrum which she frequently revisits, becomes somewhat tiresome.
All that said, there are enough passages of philosophical clarity, quite beautifully written, that make the thicket-wrestling well worth the effort. But overall, for myself, I preferred the abridged version; (perhaps I just like to be read to?). As for the few book reviews that round off this collection; it rather feels as if these were added merely to pad out what would otherwise have been an insufficient body of work.
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