Permanence by Sophie Mackintosh: book review
Permanence by Sophie Mackintosh Clara and Francis wake up in bed together one morning. This is strange. This has never happened before. She's never brought him a mug of coffee in bed. They've never done anything domestic together. Because Francis has a wife and a young daughter at home. Clara and Francis are having an affair. But this unfamiliar apartment they wake up in allows space for what could never happen in their real lives. The city is gleaming and beautiful and alive. Clara gets to do all the small things with him she's craved in the year they've been together but never publicly, knowably together. Clara caught his eye in an art museum, staring at a painting that follows them into the city of impermanence. She is full of hope and yearning and longing. She tolerates living a half-life to facilitate what Francis needs. As much as Francis loves Clara, he also loves his daughter and does not despise his domestic life or his wife. He will always been caught betwee...
