Pre-Owned The Bradshaw Variations (Hardcover 9780374100810) by Rachel Cusk

from dudara

The book centres on various members of the Bradshaw family and in particular, Thomas, Tonie and their daughter, Alexa. The traditional family roles are reversed when Tonie accepts a promotion to chair the English department in the university where she lectures and Thomas becomes a stay-at-home fa...

from arkgirl1

This tale of an extended family over a year consists of little vignettes of their lives from different perspectives. Although Cusk is undoubtedly an accomplished writer, and some of the insights are cleverly portrayed, the novel, for me, lacks emotional depth . The musical motif sometimes seems a...

from gaskella

A year in the life of the Bradshaws - three brothers, ageing parents and their families and three family mid-life crises. Firstly, there's middle brother Thomas who has taken a year's sabbatical to learn the piano, his wife Tonie who has been promoted and back at work full-time, and daughter Alex...

from Stromata

This is the first work of fiction that I have read by Rachel Cusk, but I have recently read 'The Last Summer' an account of a summer spent withy her family in Italy, which I greatly enjoyed. When I read the first chapter or so of 'The Bradshaw Variations' I must admit to thinking 'oh no, not anot...

from triscuit

I have liked all of Cusk's novels so perhaps I have a relationship with her that skews me to forgive/appreciate her rather more than the previous reviewers here. The things they complain about are not necessarily negatives for me - I am not a plot driven reader and I like cerebral when it is writ...