The Bradshaw Variations
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The seventh novel by the acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, Rachel Cuskβs The Bradshaw Variations is a lyrical, subversive tale of a marriage unraveling.
Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy enough daughter, and an eerie sense that life might be happening elsewhere. Then Tonie accepts a big promotion at work and Thomas agrees to become a stay-at-home dad. While Thomas is suddenly faced with the daily silence of an empty house, Tonie finds herself alive to previously unimagined possibilities. And at the head of the family, the aging Bradshaw parents continue their marital dynamic of bickering and petty undermining.
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Rachel Cusk is the author of Second Place; the Outline trilogy, Transit, Kudos; the essay collection Coventry; the memoirs A Lifeβs 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.
Juanita McMahon is an Earphones Awardβwinning narrator and a professionally trained actress with experience in theater, television, and film productions, including the critically acclaimed Control, which won the BIFA Best British Film Award.
