<DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><P>Since quitting work to look after his eight-year-old daughter, Alexa, Thomas Bradshaw has found solace and nourishment in his daily piano study. But his parents and in-laws wonder why he has swapped roles with Tonie Swann, his intense, intellectual wife. And how can this be good for their daughter?</P><P>Tonie is increasingly seduced away from domestic life by the headier world of work, where long-forgotten memories of ambition are awakened. She finds herself outside their tight family circle, alive to previously unimaginable possibilities. </P><P>Over the course of a year full of crisis and revelation, we follow their fortunes, and<I> The Bradshaw Variations</I> shows Rachel Cusk to be a lyrically subversive writer at the height of her powers.</P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>