The Husbands

The Husbands

Paperback (13 Mar 2025)

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Publisher's Synopsis

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

'One of the funniest debuts for years' SUNDAY TIMES * 'My favourite book of 2024' SOPHIE HANNAH * 'A time-bending gem' GABRIELLE ZEVIN * Endlessly funny, ultimately profound' JENNY COLGAN

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?

***READERS LOVE THE HUSBANDS!!****
'This book was INCREDIBLE! So inventive, funny and different'
'I clapped out loud and cried'
'I adored this book. Fast-paced and funny with heart'
'Incredibly vivid, completely original'
'So many husbands so many personalities so much confusion so much fun!'

About the Publisher

Vintage

Vintage

Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.

Book information

ISBN: 9781529920352
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 356
Weight: -1g
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm