{"product_id":"life-of-m-signed-edition","title":"Life of M (Signed Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty and truth --\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Truly masterful, her best work so far. I loved it' Vincenzo Latronico\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography. She liked the idea. She's a good sport. Would you just make it up? she said.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eM is a film star, and one of the most recognisable faces of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging, spaces are altered to accommodate her, time can be rearranged. For her, it seems, the rules of reality have melted away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow M has agreed to let a stranger write her biography. Their project will sprawl and expand: to the olive groves and holiday beaches where M spends her days; across hotel rooms, bourgeois facades, film sets; through endless modern cities. It is hard not to feel ugly next to M, hard not to feel insignificant. But what truths - about the very experience of living - might this proximity allow the writer to briefly capture? And what in the end will M make of their work?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLife of M\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Rachel Cusk has again fashioned a new kind of literature. A novel stripped of artifice, it takes our emptiness and fills it with grace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56179804045697,"sku":"9780571399802","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0244\/8444\/6286\/files\/LifeofM_9780571399802.png?v=1787759373","url":"https:\/\/shop.bl.uk\/products\/life-of-m-signed-edition","provider":"British Library Online Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}