The Lodgers
by Holly Pester
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Pub Date 1 Feb 2024 | Archive Date 11 Mar 2024
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Description
A burlesque, dark comedy about lodgings, lovers, and mother-daughter bonds that falter across time and tenancies.
'What it said to me was that I was here again, I was back, back from the great nowhere of somewhere else, returned, all too officially, to the whereabouts of Moffa.'
After a year away, a woman arrives back in her hometown to keep an eye on her wayward mother, Moffa. Living in a precarious sub-let, she is always on edge, anticipating a visit from the landlord or the arrival of the other resident. But her thoughts also drift back to the rented room she has just left, now occupied by a new lodger she has never met, but whose imagined navigations within the house and home become her fascination.
The minor dramas of temporary living are prised open and ransacked in Holly Pester's irreverent reckoning with those who house us. This is a story about what it means to live and love within and outside of family structures. It is also a stunning first novel from a writer already hailed as one of the best poets of her generation.
Advance Praise
‘With tang and pith in every sentence, The Lodgers speaks to a generational epidemic of rootlessness and porous selfhood with vital wit and utter originality’ AK Blakemore
‘A sad strange lyrical story of shame and displacement but whose strength will not let you go’ Sheena Patel
‘The Lodgers undertakes the vital political work of imagining – and asking its readers to imagine closely imagining – what it actually feels like to live as a body among other bodies, sharing sheets, time and carelessly furnished rooms. The restless tactics of Holly Pester’s extraordinary sentences enact the precarity of the living conditions she describes and reading her novel I have never felt more housed or unhoused, protected or unprotected, more unsettled or more profoundly moved. Holly Pester is a genius and The Lodgers gets into everything that matters’ Kate Briggs
‘There is no one better than Holly Pester at communicating the eerie, sometimes hilarious and often hallucinatory experience of modern precarity. This is a novel for the age and for generation rent: a captivating and unforgettable account of how economic circumstance can lead to a feeling of being only half alive’ Nathalie Olah
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781783789832 |
| PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
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