Scaffolding eBook

Scaffolding is like a perfect French movie of a novel elegant, original and often very funny Kevin Barry, New Statesman Books of the YearTwo 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 Cl mentine 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