Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk

A day in the life of stay-at-home and working mothers in a suburban town in England. In the novel, we meet five women and get to know their feelings about their lives, marriage and their children. I picked it up because as a stay-at-home mom I was interested in what Cusk has to say about contemporary mothers. In some ways, it reminded me of Tom Perrotta's Little Children because the women at times seemed so unhappy and both are satires. I did really enjoy the inside look at other mothers, although the descriptions of the town and the weather get a bit wordy at times, and as a mother of a little boy, I think her depictions of sons can be a tad harsh. For readers of literary women's fiction.