A deliberate and often raw examination of self-identity – 4 Stars
Presented as a collection of communications (perhaps, from a series of letters) to someone only ever referred to as ‘Jeffers’, the novel opens when M visits a gallery in Paris and becomes captivated by an artist’s self-portrait. Convinced that this artist can help her achieve a true sense of self, M invites him to stay in the guest lodge of her remote, coastal home…
Whereas we are usually led to believe that a good author will ‘show don’t tell’, Cusk succeeds in doing the complete opposite here. Whatever information is gained comes from M herself, and Cusk constantly challenges the reader to decide just how reliable her narrator is. M deftly leaps from one conceptualisation to the next, but whether this is in a quest to discover or hide her true nature is always open to interpretation.
I found ‘Second Place’ a strangely compelling read, and was particularly drawn to the many evocative descriptions of the natural environment. However, whilst I can easily recall how the novel starts and finishes, I’m left with only a vague impression of the middle section. In part I think this is fitting, it is after all a book in which the narrator’s thoughts and impressions are jumbled and fleeting, but I rather think it’s more due to M’s monologue being so frequently tinged with self-pity (despite her protestations that it isn’t), that I was often tempted to ‘tune-out’.
Overall: A difficult character to like, but Cusk succeeds in giving M a unique and strangely compelling voice.
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