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Aftermath: on marriage and separation

Beginning with Cusk’s 2001 publication of A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother, Cusk’s memoirs, expressing her personal trauma and self-analysis, have led to public controversy. In engaging with and contributing to the public discourse around the morality of life writing and the genre’s specific use to female writers, Aftermath has moulded the direction and intensity of these debates in the UK and internationally. As it recounts the breakdown of a marriage, Aftermath also explores life writing as a means to ignite and process feminist arguments about women’s experiences of domesticity, relationships, and physicality. Aftermath was widely reviewed internationally in the Guardian, New York Times and others.