The Husbands

You wait ages for The One . . . then 203 come along at once

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.

Lauren’s attic, she slowly realises, is creating an endless supply of husbands for her.

There’s the one who pretends to play music on her toes.
The one who’s too hot (there must be a catch).
The one who makes a great breakfast sandwich.
The one who turns everything into double entendres (‘I’ll weed your garden’).
And 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?

Review

Laugh-out-loud funny while deeply thoughtful this is a wonderful wonderful novel -- JENNIE GODFREY, author of THE LIST OF SUSPICIOUS THINGS

Funny, fresh... an absolute riot, just one of the best books I've read in long time -- THE UNMUMSY MUM

Clever, fresh, inventive, The Husbands is wholly original -- LOUISE O'NEILL

One of the funniest debuts for years... Holly Gramazio has not only come up with the most ingenious conceit, she has summoned the humour and sophistication to pull it off... a brilliant satire on the Tinder generation's commitment issues -- Johanna Thomas-Corr ― Sunday Times

I loved everything about it -- Sara Lawrence ― Daily Mail

About the Author

Holly Gramazio is a writer, game designer and curator from Adelaide, currently based in London. She founded the experimental games festival Now Play This, and wrote the script for the award-winning indie videogame Dicey Dungeons. She’s particularly interested in rules, play, cities, gardens, games that get people acting creatively and art that gets people interacting with their surroundings in new ways. The Husbands is her first novel.