A woman on a plane listens to the stranger telling her the story of his life. The conversations she has with the people she meets - about art, about family, about love, about sorrow, joy, about justice and injustice - are the most far-reaching questions human beings ask. These conversations rise dramatically and majestically to a beautiful conclusion. Kudos completes Rachel Cusk's trilogy with overwhelming power. The trilogy is one of the great achievements in fiction.