Most Anticipated Books of 2024 mentions in The Telegraph , Guardian , Stylist , and Vice A dark comedy about lodgings, lovers, and mother-daughter bonds that falter across time and tenancies. --Kate Briggs, author of The Long Form. -- The Guardian Holly Pester is a genius and The Lodgers gets into everything that matters.
This stylistically eccentric novel holds a pressing, political truth.
She is increasingly arrested in the same recursive loop: If we cannot advise our past self with the benefit of hindsight, can we at least counsel those who follow us? The dramas of temporary living--a lack of privacy, the transactional nature of renting, and the lasting effects of impermanence--are turned out in this this irreverent, experimental, and boldly stylish novel that examines a life lived in other people\'s spaces.
It may be an unhealthy obsession or an imaginative release from her own problems she cannot quite bring herself to define.
She imagines its new occupant, whose negotiations of the same household and its knotty relationships echo and eerily confound her own.
Much as she\'d like to be a good daughter and build a meaningful existence, she is instead haunted by her childhood self--and by the rented room she has just left.
A woman returns to the small English town she grew up in to live in a sublet that overlooks her mother\'s house.
Most Anticipated Books of 2024 mentions in The Telegraph , Guardian , Stylist , and Vice A dark comedy about lodgings, lovers, and mother-daughter bonds that falter across time and tenancies
