{"product_id":"rachel-cusk-life-of-m","title":"Rachel Cusk: Life of M","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFaber \u0026amp; Faber, 2026, hardcover, 192 pages, 13.5 x 21.6 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography. She liked the idea. She's a good sport. Would you just make it up? she said.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eM is a film star, and one of the most recognisable faces of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging, spaces are altered to accommodate her, time can be rearranged. For her, it seems, the rules of reality have melted away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow M has agreed to let a stranger write her biography. Their project will sprawl and expand: to the olive groves and holiday beaches where M spends her days; across hotel rooms, bourgeois facades, film sets; through endless modern cities. It is hard not to feel ugly next to M, hard not to feel insignificant. But what truths - about the very experience of living - might this proximity allow the writer to briefly capture? And what in the end will M make of their work?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLife of M\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Rachel Cusk has again fashioned a new kind of literature. A novel stripped of artifice, it takes our emptiness and fills it with grace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58798995505536,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/81iq59Bw7pL._SY522.jpg?v=1787924370","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/rachel-cusk-life-of-m","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}