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Since quitting work to look after his eight-year-old daughter, Alexa, Thomas Bradshaw has found solace and nourishment in his daily piano study. But his parents and in-laws wonder why he has swapped roles with Tonie Swann, his intense, intellectual wife. And how can this be good for their daughter?

Tonie is increasingly seduced away from domestic life by the headier world of work, where long-forgotten memories of ambition are awakened. She finds herself outside their tight family circle, alive to previously unimaginable possibilities.

Over the course of a year full of crisis...

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.

Rachel Cusk hat ein zutiefst persönliches und hochpolitisches Buch geschrieben - einen skandalträchtigen Bericht über die gewaltigen Folgen und Nebenwirkungen ihrer eigenen Trennung.

Sie erzählt von der heiklen Entscheidung, direkt nach der Geburt der Töchter als Schriftstellerin weiterzuarbeiten, während ihr Mann, zuvor erfolgreicher Fotograf, Töchter und Haushalt übernimmt. Eine unkonventionelle Konstellation, schwierige Umstände, dann die Krise, bald darauf die Trennung. Schonungslos geht sie dabei mit sich ins Gericht, spricht über die eigenen Fehler...

Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel

Agnes Day is mildly discontent. As a child, she never wanted to be an Agnes--she wanted to be a pleasing Grace. Alas, she remained the terminally middle class, hopelessly romantic Agnes. Now she's living with her two best friends in London and working at a trade magazine. Life and love seem to go on without her. Not only does she not know how to get back into the game, she isn't even sure what the game is. But she gives a good performance--until she learns that her roommates and her boyfriend are keeping secrets from her, and...

Parade erzählt von einem Leben, das viele andere Leben enthält - von Weiblichkeit, Kunst und Macht, Familie und Freiheit, und davon, woraus wir uns immer wieder aufs Neue erfinden. Rachel Cusk stellt Sprache und Denken auf den Kopf und zeigt uns die Welt, wie sie wirklich ist.

Rachel Cusk setzt ein erzählerisches Karussell in Gang und erzählt uns frappierende Episoden, die sich an den entscheidenden Punkten kreuzen und überlagern.
Plötzlich malt G verkehrt herum. Die eigene Frau zum Beispiel. Dabei macht er sie hässlich. Die Bilder werden ein...

A vivid and elegant account of a family's season abroad by one of our finest contemporary authors

Casting off a northern winter and an orderly life, a family decides to sell everything and go to Italy to search for art and its meanings, for freedom from routine, for a different path into the future. The award-winning writer Rachel Cusk describes a three-month journey around the Italy of Raphael and rented villas, of the Piero della Francesca trail and the tourist furnace of Amalfi, of soccer and the simple glories of pasta and gelato. With her husband and two children, Cusk...