The Lucky Ones by Rachel Cusk

• Tweebronnen Openbare Bibliotheek Leuven, Belgium

A young pregnant woman's isolation; a new father's first holiday away from his wife and child; a daughter's search for lost childhood; a mother's transformation into a grandmother; and a wife's secret longing - five men and women's lives converge in this powerful and moving story of family relationships.

Rachel Cusk was born in 1967 and is the author of three previous novels, Saving Agnes, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award, The Temporary, and The Country Life, which won a Somerset Maugham Award. A Life's Work was her controversial account of becoming a mother.