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  Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (Hardback) By (author) Rachel Cusk

  

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  Short Description for AftermathIn the winter of 2009, the author's marriage of ten 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. This title chronicles this perilous journey as she redefines herself as a single woman and creates a fresh version of family life for her daughters.
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  • Publisher: Faber and Faber
  • Published: 01 March 2012
  • Format: Hardback 160 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Literary | Gender Studies: Women | Family & Relationships | Dating, Relationships, Living Together & Marriage | Separation & Divorce
  • ISBN 13: 9780571277650 ISBN 10: 0571277659
  • Sales rank: 25,251

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• In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten 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. "I can't remember what it feels like to be at ease. This ceaseless effort to manufacture normality is a kind of forger's art, so laborious compared with the facility that created the original". 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.