An extraordinary piece of writing stunningly bold, original and humane. -- Joanna Kavenna * Daily Telegraph * Rachel Cusks new novel is tremendous from its opening sentence Cusk is always an exciting writer: striking and challenging, with a distinctive cool prose voice, and behind that coolness something untamed and full of raw force, even rash ... Transit steers with stylishness and grace between the low-lying truths and the significant dramas we compose for ourselves out of the accidents which befall us. Offering no hostages to convention, its somehow page-turningly enthralling and charged with the power to move. -- Tessa Hadley * Guardian * Her writing, for all its laconic, pared-back grace, is rich in detail Cusk is now working on a level that makes it very surprising she has not yet won a major literary prize. Her technical originality is equalled by the compelling nature of her subject matter, and Transit is a very fine novel indeed. -- Helen Dunmore * Observer * TransfixingTheres a constant sense of Ms. Cusks mind whirling, as if she were forever, in the background, performing an internal disk check. Transit is fat with substance, as August Wilson once said he wanted his plays to be. Theres a lot of humor in its talk. -- Dwight Garner * New York Times * In her effort to expose the illusions of both fiction and life, [ Rachel Cusk] may have discovered the most genuine way to write a novel today. * Atlantic *
