Caroline Moorehead

Time out in Tuscany

The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy, by Rachel Cusk

issue 07 February 2009

In the spring of 2006, Rachel Cusk and her husband decided to take their two small daughters out of school and spend three months, a season, exploring Italy. She felt too settled, too comfortable, and if her friends wondered at what seemed like a curse of restlessness, what frightened her more was the opposite, ‘knowing something in its entirety’, and coming to the end of that knowing.

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