Unlike the trilogy, it is neither episodic nor plotless. A writer we know only as M delivers a long monologue relaying the story of her obsession with a famous painter dubbed L. The Outline trilogy is a hard act to follow, but Second Place is an excellent next step. Would she go back to her earlier, more conventional satires of the stresses of family life? Or would she continue to probe questions about the connection between freedom and gender and art and suffering in serial conversations with strangers? Rachel Cusk's Outline trilogy, which so brilliantly pushed against the confines of fiction to explore the power of narrative, left us wondering what she would write next.
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