to think this is the most annoyingly pretentious article I have read in a long time?

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www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/17/rachel-cusk-divorce-the-aftermath

I felt as if I was drowning in a sea of verbiage by the time I'd finished it.

She is so bitter and self-centred... she didn't like looking after the children because it didn't suit her sense of identity, so her husband gave up work to look after them. Now they've split up though she wants them to live with her virtually full time and is appalled that she has to pay alimony to her husband after he wrecked his career for the children

If this is her side of the story then I really shudder to think what his is like!

Agree. Drivel.

I definitely couldn't read the whole that whinging, self-indulgent tosh. I hate Rachel Cusk - she is the epitome of self-centred womanhood and tars other women with the same bleeding brush.

Oh, Rachel Cusk? What did you expect?

YANBU

Rachel Cusk is actually quite scarily fascinating in her complete self-absorption, utterly unable to see any point of view on any dimension other than her own.

OMG, it's like an 18 year old wrote it. Such pain and angst and "oh poor me", but I'm the alpha blah blah blah.

It's vomit therapy

Whatever she's thinking, however contradictory or hurtful to her family, up it comes.

Am hoping her children and ex-h choose not to read it. Otoh, the ex-h can't protest too much if she is support him financially from her writing.

I tried, I really tried to read it. I couldn't, so self-centred and selt serving. YANBU. What an awful woman.

Oh god that was tiring. So, she suddenly realised that wheb threatened with losing custody of the kids she felt she didnt want to. So many words. Itching for a red pen.

Jaysus

That's a terrible bit of writing.

surpised they printed it, load o shite

I knew it would be that piece. She's incredibly self centred, like a teenager as someone pointed out.

Awful, forced language - a trial to read.

Does she realise how she comes over?

Is she friends with Julie Myerson?

Only managed 3 paragraphs before deciding life's too short.

Who is she anyway?

I got confused at the end as to who X Y and Z were (although I was only skim reading).
I thought at first she was going to out herself as the author of the weekly article in the Guardian family supplement (Diary of a Separation ?) which I find the most depressing bit of Sat's newspaper. I don't think it is the same person though, even allowing for certain details having been changed.

carnpan she's a writer. She once wrote an article about her negative experience of joining a book club, and generally dissing the other insufficiently intellectual/literati members. The next week one of those members wrote a reply which took task with her in a very intelligent and literate manner.

No I agree - the Diary of a Separation writer has more humanity - and her writing is much clearer!

So glad you all said this, thought it was just me.

Yes I think Diary of a Separation is well written - and painfully honest about the author and her life, something which Rachel Cusk is entirely incapable of.

Have to wonder how Rachel Cusk manages to make enough money from her writing to support her two children and ex-lawyer husband in the style to which I imagine they feel entitled; she's not that much of a bestseller, surely?

Ooh Mrsgradgrind - I'd like to read that. Have a bit of a morbid fascination with Rachel Cusk as we went to same college/university, both studying English - albeit many, many years apart..
It was a bit of a breeding ground for pretension I'll admit - though when I was there all the pompous gits were men ]

YANBU, OP. Teed's Corner.

Thanks MrsGG . I'd never heard of her at all. Maybe I'll check out that bookclub article and the response.

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