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Stella Benson answers a classified ad for an au pair, arriving in a tiny Sussex village that's home to a family that is slightly larger than life. Her hopes for the Maddens may be high, but her station among them is low and remote. It soon becomes clear that Stella falls short of even the meager specifications her new role requires, most visibly in the area of "aptitude for the country life." But what drove her to leave her home, job, and life in London in the first place? Why has she severed all ties with her parents?...

Was passiert mit uns, wenn unsere eigenen Eltern plötzlich aufhören, mit uns zu reden? Warum scheint sich Grobschlächtigkeit weltweit öffentlich durchzusetzen? Kann man ein Haus bauen, ohne den Verstand zu verlieren? Warum regredieren wir beim Autofahren so spektakulär? (Sollten unsere SUVs die Airbags nicht besser außen haben?) Und wie kann es gelingen, gleichzeitig Mutter, Tochter, Ehefrau, Staatsbürgerin, Künstlerin und breadwinner für die ganze Familie zu sein? (Achtung, Spoiler: schwierig!)

Rachel Cusk ist eine unerbittlich humorvolle...

A young pregnant mother wrestles with an utterly changed life; a new father searches for a sign of the man he used to be; a daughter yearns for a lost childhood; and a mother reaches out in bewilderment to a child she can't fully understand. A rare novel that illuminates "the bustling concourses of life" without sacrificing emotional depth and complexity, The Lucky Ones confirms Rachel Cusk's place among our most incisive writers.

Set over the course of one rainy day in a London suburb, Arlington Park is a viciously funny portrait of a group of young mothers, each bound to their families, each straining for some kind of independence. As the hours pass, Rachel Cusk's graceful, incisive prose passes through the experience of each mother, following them all from the early-morning scrambling, through car trips and visits to the mall, and finally to a dinner party in the evening, when the husbands return and all the conflicts come to the surface. Penetrating and empathetic, Arlington Park is "a...