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Biographical note
Lauren Elkin is the author of several books, including Flâneuse: Women Walk the City, a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel award for the art of the essay. 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. She is also an award-winning translator, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir's previously unpublished novel The Inseparables. After twenty years in Paris, she now lives in London.<i>Scaffolding</i> is like a perfect French movie of a novel…but it is elevated by the writer’s<b> elegant, original and often very funny prose</b>
New Statesman, *Books of the Year*
<b>Intelligent, sexy and brilliantly observed</b>
Stylist
[<i>Scaffolding</i> is] <b>atmospheric and evocative,</b> the prose elegant and poised
Observer, *Books to Look Out For 2024*
<i>Scaffolding </i>is an ambitious, multi-generational book that reckons with legacy and feminist resistance…truly fascinating… <b>a provocative study</b>
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'Lauren Elkin is a writer than can jump between genres so seamlessly, she <b>deserves to be a household name</b>...Elkin continues to dazzle with her keen observations and reflective prose'
Glamour
'An unabashedly philosophical novel — one that <b>keeps the reader hooked by the sensuality of its prose'</b>
Erica Wagner, Financial Times
Elkin’s first novel is a brainy sex comedy… <b><i>Scaffolding</i> joins books by Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy, and as an erudite lust quadrilateral interested in ethical quandaries…</b> There’s no shortage of excitement in the twists supplied by what each character doesn’t know (or chooses to hide or ignore) about one another
Observer
A <b>compelling </b>work of fiction… the book will linger long in the reader’s heart and mind
Harper's Bazaar
[<i>Scaffolding</i>] unspools layers of psychic history to ask questions about the nature of desire and the possibility, or not, of intimacy…<i> </i>Anna’s first-person vice…is <b>immersive</b>. The conversations she reports feel authentic, with mundanities jostling up against profundities
Times Literary Supplement
<i>Scaffolding</i> shows off Elkin’s rich, scholarly mind to great effect… a book laden with lust and desire…<b> I expect to see Elkin’s debut feature on many end-of-year lists, and deservedly so</b>
Frieze