The Bradshaw Variations

Resumen del libro

Since leaving his job to look after Alexa, his eight-year-old daughter, Thomas Bradshaw has found the structure of his daily piano practice and the study of musical form bring a nourishment to these difficult middle years. His pursuit of a more artistic way of life shocks and irritates his parents and his in-laws. Why has he swapped roles with Tonie Swann, his intense, intellectual wife who has accepted a demanding full-time university job? How can this be good for Alexa and for the family as a whole?

Tonie tunes herself out of domestic life, into the harder, headier world of work where long-since forgotten memories of herself are awakened. She soon finds herself outside their tight family circle and alive to previously unimaginable possibilities.

Over the course of a year full of crisis and revelation, we follow the fortunes of Thomas, Tonie, his brothers and their families: Howard, the older, more successful brother and his gregarious wife, Claudia; and Leo, lacking confidence, propped up by Susie, his sharp-tongued, heavy-drinking wife. At the head of the family, the ageing Bradshaw parents continue their marital dynamic of bickering and petty undermining.

Biografía del autor

p b Rachel Cusk /b es la autora de i Segunda casa /i (premio Fémina de novela extranjera), de la trilogía de novelas i A contraluz /i ( i A contraluz /i , i Tránsito /i y i Prestigio /i ), de los libros de memorias i Un trabajo para toda la vida /i y i Despojos /i , y de varias obras de ficción y no ficción, incluida su novela más reciente, i Desfile /i (premio Goldsmiths 2024). Ha recibido una beca Guggenheim y en 2024 ha sido galardonada con el premio Malaparte y con el título de i Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres /i . Vive en París.<br>