Aftermath Tove Ditlevsen dipping their toes in the

dipping their toes in the twangy stuff as early as their second album

In this unflinching study of the best and worst of humankind

Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s

haunted by the savage murder of his wife

Painting a complete picture of the scene

Aftermath Tove Ditlevsen dipping their toes in theWritten in the months after Rachel Cusk's divorce, Aftermath is a masterly work charting the largely unwritten journey back to order from the chaos that is left when a family breaks apart. 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