The increasingly critically-acclaimed author heads to Italy with her family for a break which is set to hold both trials and wonders, observed through the astute and humane lens readers of }Outline{, }Transit{ and }Kudos{ will be accustomed to When Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children, she has no idea of the trials and wonders that lie in store. Their journey leads them to both the expected and the surprising, all seen through Cusk's sharp and humane perspective.