Summary of Outline
The protagonist of “Outline” is an English novelist who travels to Greece to teach a summer writing course. While in Greece, she encounters colleagues, students, and friends, and recounts the life stories they share with her.
Reasons to read Outline
“Outline” is a beautiful novel about human relationships, marriage, parenthood, ambition, and pride. While there is no elaborated plot or suspenseful conflict in this novel, it is more an autobiographical novel chronicling the protagonist’s conversations with people she meets in Athens. In 2019, The Guardian included “Outline” among the 100 best books of the 21st century. The New York Times selected it as one of the 10 best books of 2015. “Outline” was shortlisted for the Folio Prize (later the Writers’ Prize), the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize for Fiction and now the Women’s Prize for Fiction). “Outline” is the first novel of a trilogy, followed by “Transit” and “Kudos”. Rachel Cusk is a renowned British writer. She received many literary accolades including the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize for her novel “Parade”, the 2022 Prix Femina Ă©tranger for “Second Place”, the 1997 Somerset Maugham Award for “The Country Life”, and the 1993 Whitbread First Novel Award for “Saving Agnes”.
Setting: Athens (Greece)
Original title: Outline
Year of publication: 2014
Nr of pages: 256
