Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk, a darkly funny and moving insight into modern relationships, provides a glimpse behind the closed doors of suburbia.
Arlington Park is an ordinary English suburb. Over the course of a single day, the novel moves from one household to another, revealing its characters: 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 neighbours come together.
'A strikingly good novel, funny, poignant, savage, tender and appalling.' - Helen Dunmore
'One of the most intelligent current interpreters of domestic life... Cusk writes fearlessly of the untrammelled anger, boredom and small, significant epiphanies.' - Catherine Taylor, independent on Sunday
'A strikingly elegant writer... The lovely precision with which she can skewer a telling detail, a secret irritation or a minor marital betrayal...it is in such scenes that Cusk reveals her greatest strength, as a poet of female regret.' - Jenny McCartney, Sunday Telegraph
'Tender, haunting, grimly comic and infinitely disturbing.' - Evening Standard
