''Arlington Park'' is author Rachel Cusk's seventh book.

Plot

Focussing on a single day in an affluent English suburb, the book chronicles the lives of five middle-class married women, all of them mothers of young children. Going about their routines of child-rearing, work, shopping and socialising, they dwell of their feelings of frustration and disappointment, memories good and bad, aspirations and sometimes flashes of inspiration and hope. The five meet in the evening at a dinner party hosted by one of them.

Characters

The five women are Juliet Randall, Amanda Clapp, Maisie Carrington, Stephanie Sykes, and Christine Lanham who hosts the dinner party. The Guardian noted a literary parallel, describing Christine as "a drolly jaundiced version of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway".
Review in the Guardian, 2006

Awards

''Arlington Park'' was on the 2007

Orange Prize for Fiction The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's m ...

shortlist.

References

Contemporary Writers in the UK
2006 British novels Books about Virginia Woolf Faber and Faber books Novels by Rachel Cusk {{2000s-novel-stub