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Coventry, by Rachel Cusk: Driving as Metaphor

Driving as Metaphor

Coventry, by Rachel Cusk

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Extracts from Rachel Cusk's new collection of clear-sighted and witty essays.

Award-winning novelist Rachel Cusk considers driving in this first extract from her new collection of witty essays. Reader: Amelia Bullmore.

In her striking new collection of essays, award-winning author Rachel Cusk weaves observations of domestic concerns with art, psychology and current affairs.

In 'Driving as Metaphor', Cusk contemplates the tourists, the Sunday drivers and the speed freaks that she meets on the country roads near her home. 

Reader: Amelia Bullmore
Abridged and produced by Eilidh McCreadie

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Book of the Week. In her striking new collection of essays, award-winning author Rachel Cusk weaves observations of domestic concerns with art, psychology and current affairs.

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