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“Cusk has a canny way of depicting the granular in relationships to such a mesmerizing extent that I literally would get lost in the experience. I highly recommend this for anyone whose raised children and felt both the magic and anchor of it all. ”
— Roxanne • Bookstore1Sarasota
A funny, satirical tale of English mothers on the brink of rebellion, Arlington Park is a novel for the ages.
Set over the course of one rainy day in an ordinary English 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: Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life; Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; Solly, about to give birth to her fourth child; Maisie, struggling to accept provincial life; and Christine, the optimist and host of a dinner party where the neighbors come together.
Rachel Cusk is the author of Second Place; the trilogy Outline, Transit, Kudos; the essay collection Coventry; the memoirs A Life’s Work, The Last Supper, and Aftermath; and several other novels: Saving Agnes (winner of the Whitbread Award), The Temporary, The Country Life (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), The Lucky Ones, In the Fold, Arlington Park, and The Bradshaw Variations.
Jilly Bond has worked extensively in theater and radio for many years. Her stage credits include Miranda in The Tempest, Fiona in When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout, and Anita in A Small Family Business. She is regularly heard in dramas for Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. She has won two AudioFile Earphones Awards for her audiobook narration.
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“Much of the satirical drama of Arlington Park simmers just below the superficial veneer of suburbia. Many of these women seethe with rage and violence in their minds or behind the closed doors of their vaultlike homes…Sharp wit and commanding prose.”
“Cusk’s frank acknowledgment of maternal ambivalence is rare and wonderful.”
“Devastating…Incisively vivid.”
“No one has written better about what, I suppose, is generally known as female experience…All of it is familiar from life but not (thus far) from literature. Everything about Arlington Park is original and fearless.”
“Cusk’s glory is her style, cold and hard and devastatingly specific, empathetic but not sympathetic.”
“Hideously funny…A novel with a sense of rightness at its core and a narrative intelligence so swift and piercing it can take your breath away.”
“A domestic adventure about the perils of modern privilege that is as smartly satirical as it is warmly wise.”
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