US cover (left), Germany (centre), UK (right)
The Husbands / April 2024
My novel The Husbands is published by Chatto (UK), Doubleday (US) and Doubleday Canada. It’s a comedy about a woman whose attic starts creating an infinite supply of husbands. You can buy it now in print, audio or ebook from all the normal places to buy books, or request it at your local library!
The Husbands is a Library Reads pick for April 2024 - voted for by library workers across the US - plus an Indie Next pick, a Book of the Month club selection, the April Read With Jenna pick, the April Esquire book club pick, and a New York Times bestseller. Links to reviews to follow!
Further translations are forthcoming into Finnish (from Minerva), French (from Editions du Cherche-Midi), German (dtv), Greek (Psichogios), Hungarian (Athenaeum), Italian (Einaudi), Korean (MiraeN), Lithuanian (Alma Littera), Portuguese in Brazil (Intrinseca), Portuguese in Portugal (Suma de Letras), Romanian (Editura Trei) and Spanish (Roca).
Here’s what Chatto have to say about it:
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 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?
“WONDERFUL: fresh, original, hugely entertaining and oddly comforting . . . I laughed out loud countless times . . . the most fun I've had reading in the longest time. It is an utter delight.” — Marian Keyes
“Brilliant, hilarious, surprising and wise. I devoured it.” — Naomi Alderman
“The Husbands is a wily and wonderful exploration of modern decision-making, kaleidoscopic and bright and very, very funny.” — Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had