Fran Cooper: These Dividing Walls [2017] paperback 995 Published in the Financial Times

Published in the Financial Times less than ten days after the fire

and Gillette Castle

and polite book clubs where everyone claims to be tiddly after a glass of Pinot Grigio and says things like 'Oooh gosh

when he'd settled on Greece's Hydra island

Fran Cooper: These Dividing Walls [2017] paperback 995 Published in the Financial TimesNumber 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