Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27132 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-03
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Jane Shilling, Evening Standard
'tender, haunting, grimly comic and infinintely disturbing'

Sunday Times
'funny and exhilaratingly unrepentant ... deliriously enjoyable'

Observer
'a novel about compromises and, in particular, the ones women make
when they become mothers ... an uncomfortable but essential book'

Customer Reviews

Awful !
I absolutely hated this boring depressing book. There is no point in regretting things. Whatever it is - it's over and done with and dont do it again, but, if I were to regret something - buying this book would be one of them. What a waste of money. I also read, having bought it at the same time one of this author's other books. I hated that one too. I guess I just dont like her style and frankly I believe a lot of these people who say she is a wonderful writer dont mean a word of it.

Boring !
There is no storyline. This book is only about the depressing lives of average housewifes in an average English suburb. Boring.

Speaks of nothing new
Cusk develops the characters well, but if it's a good plot you are looking for, then this book may well be one to avoid. Arlington Park puts forward an interesting, and in my opinion feminist, view of motherhood and the 'woman's lot' but really talks of nothing new and hasn't overly inspired me to read any other books by this author.