کانراد و الینور: درام یک ازدواج، عشق و خانواده، در آستانه بحران

A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime When Conrad fails to return home from a science conference, Eleanor guesses he may at last be reacting to her infidelity. Or has he finally tired of his stagnating job in transplant research? Eleanor's own scientific career has forged ahead, while Conrad played main carer to their children. The four children, now adult, fear for their father but seem to have little sympathy for their tough ambitious mother. Meanwhile, a long way from home, Conrad is alone, scared and on the run. From The Multi-award-winning And Critically Acclaimed Author Of The Testament Of Jessie Lamb Comes This Riveting Novel About The Devastating Secrets Revealed In The Midst Of A Disintegrating Marriage. The Story Of A Marriage, And Of Two Lives In Science. When Conrad Fails To Return From A Conference, Eleanor Wonders If It Is Because Of The Affair She Is Having? Or Perhaps It Is Because His Research Into Transgenic Monkey Hearts Is Stalling; Perhaps He Is Sick Of Having The Less Successful Career Of The Two Of Them? She Is A Leading Expert In Stem Cell Research. Their Grown-up Children Suspect Eleanor Of Murdering Their Father; El Secretly Fears That What Has Driven Con Away Is His Discovery Of Their Daughter Cara's Parentage. While His Family In Manchester, England, Scrabble For Clues And Reasons, Conrad--alone, Confused, And On The Run From A Crazed Animal Rights Activist--loses Himself In The Cold Foggy Streets Of Bologna. He Revisits The Stages Of His Long Marriage To El, From The Happiness Of The Year Of Cara's Birth To The Grief And Anger He Now Feels. Both Partners Are Forced To Re-examine Their Relationship, And, In The Process, To Move Closer To An Understanding Of What It Is That Matters Most To Each Of Them. Conrad And Eleanor Is A Radical, Remarkably Nuanced Look At Marriage-- Secrets And Marital Tensions Are Exposed Following A Husband's Disappearance In This Next Novel By Jane Rogers-- Jane Rogers. "From the multi-award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Testament of Jessie Lamb comes this riveting novel about the devastating secrets revealed in the midst of a disintegrating marriage. The story of a marriage, and of two lives in science. When Conrad fails to return from a conference, Eleanor wonders if it is because of the affair she is having? Or perhaps it is because his research into transgenic monkey hearts is stalling; perhaps he is sick of having the less successful career of the two of them? She is a leading expert in stem cell research. Their grown-up children suspect Eleanor of murdering their father; El secretly fears that what has driven Con away is his discovery of their daughter Cara's parentage. While his family in Manchester, England, scrabble for clues and reasons, Conrad--alone, confused, and on the run from a crazed animal rights activist--loses himself in the cold foggy streets of Bologna. He revisits the stages of his long marriage to El, from the happiness of the year of Cara's birth to the grief and anger he now feels. Both partners are forced to re-examine their relationship, and, in the process, to move closer to an understanding of what it is that matters most to each of them. Conrad and Eleanor is a radical, remarkably nuanced look at marriage"-- Provided by publisher When Conrad fails to return from a science conference abroad, Eleanor's first thought is one of relief; he might finally have discovered her affair. Or perhaps he's simply given up on their marriage, tired of having the less successful career. As the days pass and his absence in the family fold grows stronger, Eleanor begins to makes sense of what has happened to their lives to get them to this point. Leaving his family in Manchester to scrabble for clues, unsure of their feelings towards him, Conrad loses himself in the cold foggy streets of Bologna. Ill, confused, and desperately trying to avoid becoming a whistle-blower by a blackmailer, he revisits the stages of his long marriage to El, from their early happiness to the grief and anger he now feels. As Conrad and Eleanor examine their marriage, they move closer to an understanding of what it is that matters most to each of them When Conrad fails to return home from a science conference, Eleanor guesses he may at last be reacting to her infidelity. Or has he finally tired of his stagnating job in transplant research? Eleanor's own scientific career has forged ahead, while Conrad played main carer to their children. The four children, now adult, fear for their father but seem to have little sympathy for their tough ambitious mother. Meanwhile, a long way from home, Conrad is alone, scared and on the run. Fiction An intricate and revealing portrait of a dysfunctional marriage as it unravels in midlife crisis and estrangement, and the fallout from one summer, twenty-five years ago. "Secrets and marital tensions are exposed following a husband's disappearance in this next novel by Jane Rogers"-- Provided by publisher