{"product_id":"scaffolding","title":"Scaffolding","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 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 Clémentine who has moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist collective called les colleuses.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMeanwhile, in 1972, Florence and Henry are redoing their kitchen. Florence is finishing her degree in psychology while hoping to get pregnant. But Henry isn’t sure he’s ready for fatherhood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBoth sets of couples face the challenges of marriage, fidelity, and pregnancy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe characters and their ghosts bump into and weave around each other, not knowing that they once all inhabited the same space. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA novel in the key of Éric Rohmer, \u003cem\u003eScaffolding\u003c\/em\u003e is about the bonds we create with people, and the difficulty of ever fully severing them; about the ways that people we’ve known live on in us; and about the way that the homes we make hold communal memories of the people who’ve lived in them and the stories that have been told there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lauren Elkin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45550857683201,"sku":"9781529932942","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/Untitleddesign-2025-06-06T133534.073.png?v=1749213368","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/scaffolding","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}