Kudos - 'Reaches a kind of formal perfection.' Sally Rooney

A landmark in twenty-first-century English literature, the culmination of an artist's unshakable efforts to forge her own path. (Andrew Anthony Observer)

Kudos by Rachel Cusk concludes one of the most interesting literary projects of recent years . . . Rich in comedy and wisdom, and is compelling from its first page to its extraordinary final scene. (Chris Power New Statesman Books of the Year)

As she did in the first two volumes of this spare, beautiful trilogy, Cusk illuminates her narrator's inner life via encounters with others. The novels describe in haunting detail what it's like to walk through the world, trailing ashes after your life goes up in flames. (New York Times Books of the Year)

Like its predecessors, Kudos is a triumph, a highly original work filled with perfectly-honed sentences that puts much contemporary fiction to shame. (Evening Standard)