M feels herself “falling out of the frame she has lived in for years” and becomes enthralled by L, convinced he can restore her to visibility, that he has the power to enable her to see herself clearly so she can say “I am here”. It’s a simple but seductive set-up: the female writer M invites the male artist L to stay in the “second place” she has built on the secluded marshland property where she lives with her partner Tony. The result is Second Place, her first novel since she finished the Outline trilogy, and a return to plot and protagonist, albeit in a very Cuskian way. And I didn’t know whether a direction would come out of that, or could come out of that, and I had to just wait and see what happened in my thinking.” “There was so much about stripping away and dismantling, and I’d almost reduced it to the ground.
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