Since quitting work to look after his eight-year-old daughter, Alexa, Thomas Bradshaw has found solace and nourishment in his daily piano study.
She lives in Brighton, England..
In 2003, Cusk was chosen as one of Granta \'s Best of Young British Novelists.
She is the author of the memoirs A Life\'s Work: On Becoming a Mother and The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy , and of six novels: Saving Agnes , which won the Whitbread First Novel Award
The Temporary
The Country Life , which won a Somerset Maugham Award
The Lucky Ones , which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award
In the Fold ; and Arlington Park , which was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.
About the Author: Rachel Cusk was born in 1967.
Over the course of a year full of crisis and revelation, we follow their fortunes, and The Bradshaw Variations shows Rachel Cusk to be a lyrically subversive writer at the height of her powers.
She finds herself outside their tight family circle, alive to previously unimaginable possibilities.
And how can this be good for their daughter? Tonie is increasingly seduced away from domestic life by the headier world of work, where long-forgotten memories of ambition are awakened.
But his parents and in-laws wonder why he has swapped roles with Tonie Swann, his intense, intellectual wife.
Since quitting work to look after his eight-year-old daughter, Alexa, Thomas Bradshaw has found solace and nourishment in his daily piano study
