Scaffolding

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781529932942
  • Weight: 280g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Jun 2025
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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 Clémentine 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

Lauren Elkin is the author of several critically-acclaimed books, including Scaffolding, Art Monsters, and Flâneuse. Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Times, Granta, Harper's, Le Monde, Les Inrockuptibles, and Frieze, among others. An award-winning translator, she lives between Paris and London.