The Husbands
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2.8 • 6 Ratings
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
**SOON TO BE A MAJOR APPLE TV SERIES**
What if you could change husbands as easily as a lightbulb?
One night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband. All the evidence – from photos to electricity bills – suggests he’s right. And then another one appears. Lauren’s attic, she slowly realises, is creating an endless supply of husbands for her. There’s:
The one who’s too hot (there must be a catch).
The one who pretends to play music on her toes.
The one who can calm her unruly thoughts with a single touch.
But when you can change husbands as easily as changing a lightbulb, how do you know whether the one you have now is the good-enough one, or the wrong one, or the best one? And how long should you keep trying to find out?
‘Properly laugh-out-loud funny, this was one of the most original novels I’ve read in years’ RED, *Books of the Year*
‘A witty, ingenious debut novel… An enormously entertaining story that is both silly and sophisticated’ SUNDAY TIMES, *Books of the Year*
‘A clever and hilarious read that makes you rethink the idea of a soulmate’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
THE NO 1 KINDLE BESTSELLER
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
BEST SUMMER READ IN THE GUARDIAN, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, RED & DAILY MAIL
©2024 Holly Gramazio (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Customer Reviews
Didn’t want the book to end ⚡️⚡️
I listened to this one. Which turned out to be the right decision.
The voice actor moves between a British accent to a soft american accent, switching as the story demands…and somehow never becomes annoying about it. That is harder than it sounds. Excellently performed. By the end I had completely forgotten I was listening to a performance. It had become just a voice, telling me something I needed to hear.
Holly Gramazio wrote a book that reads like a rollercoaster. The rough-fairground-ride-in-heels kind. The one that drops before you’ve had time to brace.
The premise is absurd in the best way… your husband comes down from the attic a different man, and your life reshapes itself around him, and then another, and another.
But what Gramazio actually wrote is something quieter than the concept suggests. A story about hunger. For friendship. For a sense of place. For a life that actually fits the shape of you.
The main character has so much depth it’s almost uncomfortable. She is not a hero. Nobody in this book is. They are all just people, “we out here trying” failing, wanting things they can’t quite name. Reading her felt a little like finding an old journal entry and realizing you still recognize the handwriting.
I finished it wanting to love myself slightly more. Knowing full well how flawed I am. That’s a rare thing for a book to do.
The last chapter had me in tears. Not politely. Properly.