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SUMMARY:SCAFFOLDING and THE ORANGE ROOM: Lauren Elkin & Rosie Price in co
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DESCRIPTION:We're delighted to be hosting the Manchester launch of Lauren
  Elkin's SCAFFOLDING and Rosie Price's THE ORANGE ROOM - two brilliant a
 nd beautiful new novels which explore relationships\, art and sex. Laure
 n and Rosie will be in conversation with Kaye Mitchell.\n\nDoors: 18.30\
 , starts: 18.45\n\nTickets start from £4.00. SCAFFOLDING and THE ORANGE 
 ROOM will also be available to purchase on the night and Lauren and Rosi
 e will both be signing copies after the talk. If you would like a signed
  copy but cannot make the event\, please contact us on 0161 274 3331 or 
 manchester@blackwell.co.uk and we can arrange this for you.\n\nBook your
  tickets here - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scaffolding-and-the-orang
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 Hgx-dNpGM9GzeWT4iF_HBhE2gHHVAb5Jp5tR6KFE851beDPy4qQ\n\nAbout the books:\
 n\nScaffolding - Lauren Elkin\n\nThe story of two couples who live in th
 e same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart.\n\nIn 201
 9\, Anna\, a psychoanalyst\, is processing a recent miscarriage. Her hus
 band\, David\, takes a job in London so she spends days obsessing over r
 enovating the kitchen while befriending a younger woman called Clémentin
 e who has moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist coll
 ective called les colleuses.\n\nMeanwhile\, in 1972\, Florence and Henry
  are redoing their kitchen. Florence is finishing her degree in psycholo
 gy while hoping to get pregnant. But Henry isn’t sure he’s ready for fat
 herhood…\n\nBoth sets of couples face the challenges of marriage\, fidel
 ity\, and pregnancy. The characters and their ghosts bump into and weave
  around each other\, not knowing that they once all inhabited the same s
 pace.\n\nA novel in the key of Éric Rohmer\, Scaffolding is about the bo
 nds we create with people\, and the difficulty of ever fully severing th
 em\; about the ways that people we’ve known live on in us\; and about th
 e 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.\n\nThe Orange 
 Room - Rosie Price\n\nRhianne expresses her inner world through line and
  colour. This summer\, though\, back home in the west country\, she is s
 eeking distraction in heat and noise. Art school in London has ripped aw
 ay her confidence and sense of safety: better for now to be swept along 
 by the hotel kitchen where she’s working\, where the pressure is high an
 d the dangers are more obvious. Sharp knives. Hot plates. Little time to
  think.\n\nHer dad\, Dominic\, is concerned for Rhianne but relieved to 
 have her close. Her step-mum\, Melissa\, is on alert\, though trying to 
 tread carefully. But then there’s Callum\, just across the chef’s pass\,
  with his controlled manner and intent gaze. There’s attraction. There’s
  everything that comes next.\n\nFrom the acclaimed author of What Red Wa
 s\, The Orange Room is about the narrow line between passion and control
 \, and an insidious kind of violence that is difficult to name. Asking w
 hat it means to see clearly\, and what courage it takes to be seen\, it 
 is the story of a tenacious young woman who – through her art\, her stre
 ngth\, her determination – finds her way back to herself.\n\nAbout the a
 uthors:\n\nLauren Elkin is the author of several books\, including Flâne
 use: 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-Spielvoge
 l award for the art of the essay. Her essays on art\, literature\, and c
 ulture 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 Simo
 ne de Beauvoir's previously unpublished novel The Inseparables. After tw
 enty years in Paris\, she now lives in London.\n\nRosie Price is the acc
 laimed author of What Red Was and The Orange Room. She lives in London.
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LOCATION:Blackwells Book Store\, University Green\, 146 Oxford Road\, Man
 chester\, M13 9GP
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