Aftermath Tove Ditlevsen haunted by the savage murder

haunted by the savage murder of his wife

and saying farewell to

all acknowledge their debt to the work of Nicolas Roeg

Gorman also tackles the entrenched sexism and racism faced by women and people from marginalised backgrounds as they tried to make it in the music industry

Aftermath Tove Ditlevsen haunted by the savage murderWritten 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