Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk is the author of several works of fiction and non-fiction. Saving Agnes won the 1993 Whitbread First Novel Award and Arlington Park was shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. In 2003 Cusk was chosen by Granta magazine as one of their "Best Young British Novelists." Her latest book is a memoir, The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy.

The Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy
A multi-stranded and engrossing novel of civilian life during World War II. "One of those combinations of soap opera and literature that are so rare you'd think it would meet the conditions of two kinds of audiences: those after what the trade calls 'a good read,' and those who want something more." —Howard Moss, The New York Review of Books