PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
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.
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 * Laugh-out-loud funny, perceptive and utterly original, I guarantee you’ve never read a book quite like it * Red * I’ve been lucky enough to read lots of funny books already this year, and this is one of the best… [a] hilarious, relatable story -- Nina Pottell * Prima * A witty multiverse romcom... neatly flipping the script on the quest to find The One * Observer * A quirky, funny tale about how you decide on The One when there’s an endless supply * Grazia * [A] darkly funny take on modern romance -- Eithne Farry * Mail on Sunday * A clever exploration of modern dating, it has lots to say about love, life and satisfaction – and is utterly hilarious in the process * i * Delightfully addictive… a bottomless champagne flute of a novel -- Elizabeth Hand * Washington Post * 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 Richly characterized, philosophical, and funny. I enjoyed all the husbands, even (especially?) the terrible ones. A time-bending gem about the way we live now -- GABRIELLE ZEVIN My favourite book of 2024… incredible fun to read and also properly profound and thought-provoking. Couldn’t have loved it more -- SOPHIE HANNAH Brilliant, hilarious, surprising and wise. I devoured it -- NAOMI ALDERMAN I can't remember the last time I opened a book, then refused to put it down till I'd finished it at 2am. Endlessly funny, ultimately profound Clever, fresh, inventive, The Husbands is wholly original -- LOUISE O'NEILL The most hilarious, fascinating and revealing novel you will read this year. It’s going to be the bookclub hit of 2024 -- KEITH STUART, author of The Boy Made of Blocks
