Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin

Scaffolding by Lauren ElkinThe debut novel from the brilliant essayist, reviewer, cultural critic and author of Flaneuse 'The Susan Sontag of her generation' Deborah Levy The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north east 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

from noisy honeyeaters squabbling over wattle flowers to tiny pardalotes flitting high in the treetops

It's quick and remarkably simple

Jonah is the new kid in a country town

showed the world what true grit really meant

Traumatized individuals often have trouble processing words and information

but get the right things done

its uses and its dangers: knowledge and practice passed down through the generations

and there are reviews of new books on the working class

thrilling YA fantasy perfect for fans of Sarah J

people and the world for forty years

It includes interviews with prominent Australians such as Senator Jordon Steele-John and Paralympian Isis Holt

wonderfully unpredictable and riveting' - Rosalie Ham'Totally absorbing