What is the author's perspective in the memoir, A Life’s Work?

Cusk’s memoir is written from her own first-person perspective with an inward and reflective focus. While the narrative centers her child and the events surrounding her birth and development, her primary subject is herself, and specifically her experiences as a mother. For this reason, the focus of the book is quite narrow: The reader learns almost no biographical information about Cusk aside from her experience of mothering, with her relationships, her life leading up to the birth of her child, and her thoughts and activities outside of the specific motherhood-related subjects on which she focuses her work being omitted. Cusk states in the introduction, “I have used aspects of my life as a canvas upon which my theme, which is motherhood, may conveniently be illustrated” (5).