"An extraordinary piece of writing - stunningly bold, original and humane." -- Joanna Kavenna * Daily Telegraph *
"Rachel Cusk's new novel is tremendous from its opening sentence ... Cusk is always an exciting writer: striking and challenging, with a distinctive cool prose voice, and behind that coolness something untamed and full of raw force, even rash ... Transit steers with stylishness and grace between the low-lying truths and the significant dramas we compose for ourselves out of the accidents which befall us. Offering no hostages to convention, it's somehow page-turningly enthralling and charged with the power to move." -- Tessa Hadley * Guardian *
"Her writing, for all its laconic, pared-back grace, is rich in detail... Cusk is now working on a level that makes it very surprising she has not yet won a major literary prize. Her technical originality is equalled by the compelling nature of her subject matter, and Transit is a very fine novel indeed." -- Helen Dunmore * Observer *
"Transfixing...There's a constant sense of Ms. Cusk's mind whirling, as if she were forever, in the background, performing an internal disk check. Transit is fat with substance, as August Wilson once said he wanted his plays to be. There's a lot of humor in its talk." -- Dwight Garner * New York Times *
"In her effort to expose the illusions of both fiction and life, [Rachel Cusk] may have discovered the most genuine way to write a novel today." * Atlantic *
"I was also dazzled by Rachel Cusk's Transit... Cusk has perfected the brilliant, dark humour possible with a narrator apparently oblivious to the comedy of the scenes she's describing." -- Lara Feigel * Observer, Book of the Year *
"Superb. This second volume confirms that one of the most fascinating projects in contemporary fiction is unfolding in Rachel Cusk's trilogy. Like Outline, Transit is written with a disarming, deceptive simplicity that belies its psychological insight. The effect is like looking down into clear sea water and slowly realising that you can see to dizzying depths." -- Adam Foulds
"[Transit is] gruesomely funny... Strange, frightening and brilliant." -- Claire Allfree * Daily Mail *
"It is delightfully fun to read. Cusk knows how to write a great novel, and this one satisfies on many levels... She is producing work that is beautifully refined." -- Melissa Katsoulis * The Times *
"Brave and uncompromising in its literary ambition, Transit is a work of cut-glass brilliance that quietly insists on the reader's thoughtful attention. One beautifully crafted sentence follows another." -- Rebecca Abrams * Financial Times *
"Rachel Cusk is too smart for her own good and that's great for her readers. She seems to have X-ray eyes and writes as if she alone can see AND enjoy the horror and sadness underneath all human relationships. Each one of her words stings like a needle prick." -- John Waters
"Faye, ever the perceptive spectator, asks questions and listens to the answers coolly, never sympathetic, only pitilessly, brittly observant. And while Cusk, creatively alive again, remains a writer who does not ask to be liked, she does demand to be admired." -- Katie Law * Evening Standard *
"Told in cool, crisp prose, these mesmerizing micro-stories put everyday emotions under intense intellectual scrutiny." -- Anthony Cummins * Metro *
"[It] is as exquisitely self-withholding as its predecessor." -- Francis Spufford * New Statesman, Book of the Year *
"[Transit is] one of her best. Her emotional penetration and gift for black comedy are combined into a moving exploration of lives lived in solitude, struggling to connect." -- Helen dunmore * Observer, Book of the Year *
