Book description
Michael first met the Hanburys of Egypt Hill when he was a young
student. He was intrigued and delighted by their bohemian lifestyle
and bravado. Twelve years later, married with a young son, Michael is
invited back to the house and jumps at the chance of escaping his
increasingly turbulent domestic situation. But his illusions about the
family are shattered as the rotten core of the Hanbury myth is
gradually revealed. Intimate in its insight, epic in its emotional
scope, In the Fold is a brilliant, clever, often painful story of how
we can become undone by our yearning to belong.
Rachel Cusk was born in 1967 and is the author of four novels:
Saving Agnes, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award, The
Temporary, The Country Life, which won a Somerset Maugham Award and
The Lucky Ones, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award.
Her non-fiction book A Life's Work was published to huge acclaim in
2001. In 2003 she was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British
Novelists. She lives in Bristol.
