Scaffolding

'' Scaffolding is like a perfect French movie of a novel...elegant, original and often very funny'' Kevin Barry, New Statesman Books of the Year Two couples inhabit the same apartment in Paris, almost fifty years apart... 2019 . When David takes a job in London, Anna is left alone in their Paris apartment. It''s August and the city is deserted but when Clementine moves into the building, Anna finds herself drawn inextricably into the younger woman''s world... 1972 . Florence is finishing her degree in psychology and contemplating pregnancy. But Henry isn''t sure he''s ready for fatherhood and both have distractions outside their marriage... As the two couples face the challenges of marriage and fidelity, the characters and their ghosts bump into and weave around each other, not knowing that they once all inhabited the same space. ''Intelligent, sexy and brilliantly observed'' Stylist ''Atmospheric and evocative'' Observer

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Scaffolding is like a perfect French movie of a novel...but it is elevated by the writer's elegant, original and often very funny prose New Statesman, *Books of the Year*

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Elkin, Elkin Lauren
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.06.2025
• EAN: 9781529932942
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-3294-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), France, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Paris (City), Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1970 to c 1979, c 2010 to c 2019, FICTION / Multiple Timelines, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary