Outline by Rachel Cusk.
A novelist teaching in Athens listens as the people she meets describe their marriages, ambitions, disappointments and beliefs. Rachel Cusk builds the book through ten conversations, allowing the listener to emerge indirectly through other people's disclosures.
Read it for the choices involved in listening. The novel asks what a person reveals by giving others room to speak, and whether a portrait can be made from the space around its subject.
Faber paperback, ISBN 9780571346769. Cover image supplied by Allen & Unwin.
The Barnes & Noble option is the US paperback, ISBN 9781250081544; Apple Books offers the FSG ebook, ISBN 9780374712365. Allen & Unwin offers the pictured Faber paperback in Australia.
