• Aftermath

  • On Marriage and Separation
  • By: Rachel Cusk
  • Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
  • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Aftermath

By: Rachel Cusk
Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
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Publisher's summary

In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of 10 years came to an end. In the months that followed, life as she had known it came apart, 'like a jigsaw dismantled into a heap of broken-edged pieces'. 

Aftermath chronicles this perilous journey as the author redefines herself as a single woman and creates a new version of family life for her daughters. She discovers previously unknown strengths and freedoms but also finds herself suddenly vulnerable to outsiders, unwelcome advice, social displacement and the absence of a clear authority. The pressure to reconstruct a 'normal' life for her daughters competes with the sense that nothing feels normal at all. 

Aftermath is a masterly work in which the author, at her most candid and rigorous, charts the largely unwritten journey back to order from the chaos that is left when a family breaks apart.

©2020 Rachel Cusk (P)2020 Faber Audio

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  • Dr JS Ross
  • 12-21-21

Amazing

What an amazing writer she is, and it’s enhanced by the narrator.
Now I’ll go back and listen again!

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  • The Dachshund
  • 05-28-21

Sail along

Musings set against family life. Gently swinging between form and substance, private faces and public, hidden lives and exposed pains, partings and gatherings. Sounds esoteric but only because I can’t write like Rachel. It works. The book works. Thanks

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