The Susan Sontag of her generation Deborah LevyThe story of two couples who live in the same apartment in northeast Paris almost fifty years apart.In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscarriage. Her husband, David, takes a job in London so she spends days obsessing over renovating the kitchen while befriending a younger woman called Clmentine who has moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist collective called les colleuses.Meanwhile, in 1972, Florence and Henry are redoing their kitchen. Florence is finishing her degree in psychology while hoping to get pregnant. But Henry isnt sure hes ready for fatherhoodBoth sets of couples face the challenges of marriage, fidelity, and pregnancy. The characters and their ghosts bump into and weave around each other, not knowing that they once all inhabited the same space.A novel in the key of ric Rohmer, Scaffolding is about the bonds we create with people, and the difficulty of ever fully severing them about the ways that people weve known live on in us and about the way that the homes we make hold communal memories of the people whove lived in them and the stories that have been told there.Atmospheric and evocative, the prose elegant and poised Observer

Binding: Hardback;400 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 624 g; Dimensions: 224 x 148 x 37

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