Rachel Cusk is a true original. Her Outline Trilogy attracted acclaim and a legion of readers because it felt like something new from a voice in fiction we hadn’t heard before. Writing across fiction, memoir and essay, this award-winning chronicler of the personal is renowned for her coolly glittering prose and astute examination of women’s lives. Rachel (from the UK) speaks with Annabel Crabb about her extraordinary career in writing and Second Place, her latest fable of human destiny and decline.