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These Dividing Walls: Shortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award
Fran Cooper
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Description for These Dividing Walls: Shortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Number 37 has its stories: in this it is like any building. For what building doesn't have secrets? How much does anyone know of what goes on behind their neighbours' doors? Far back on Paris' Left Bank, in a secret quarter, Edward arrives at an empty attic room for the summer. On the floors below him are the residents of number 37: Cesar, a banker hiding his redundancy from his wife, lives adjacent to Isabelle, a bitter HR manager; Madame Marin, the gossiping hairdresser lives below Anais, a young mother on the edge; and Frederique, a bohemian ... Read more
Number 37 has its stories: in this it is like any building. For what building doesn't have secrets? How much does anyone know of what goes on behind their neighbours' doors? Far back on Paris' Left Bank, in a secret quarter, Edward arrives at an empty attic room for the summer. On the floors below him are the residents of number 37: Cesar, a banker hiding his redundancy from his wife, lives adjacent to Isabelle, a bitter HR manager; Madame Marin, the gossiping hairdresser lives below Anais, a young mother on the edge; and Frederique, a bohemian ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473641549
SKU
V9781473641549
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About Fran Cooper
Fran Cooper grew up in London before reading English at Cambridge and Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She spent three years in Paris writing a PhD about travelling eighteenth-century artists, and currently works in the curatorial department of a London museum. These Dividing Walls is her first novel.
Reviews for These Dividing Walls: Shortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award
In a Paris tense with summer heat, anger and hate drive its people to drastic action, in this intensely satisfying and timely novel of a city in crisis.
Aileen Smyth, Dubray Rathmines It's the voices of various neighbours in their apartment block that make this novel special.
AnOther Magazine
An enchanting and beautifully written debut
Jo's ... Read more
Aileen Smyth, Dubray Rathmines It's the voices of various neighbours in their apartment block that make this novel special.
AnOther Magazine
An enchanting and beautifully written debut
Jo's ... Read more