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  • Published: 22 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529920352
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99

The Husbands




A brilliantly original, funny and astute debut that examines how we navigate life, love and choice in a world of never-ending options

**READER FAVOURITE IN THE FIRST-EVER GOOD HOUSEKEEPING GOOD BOOKS COLLECTION**
**SOON TO BE A MAJOR APPLE TV SERIES**

‘Properly laugh-out-loud funny, this was one of the most original novels I’ve read in years’ RED, *Books of the Year*
‘A witty, ingenious debut novel… An enormously entertaining story that is both silly and sophisticated’ SUNDAY TIMES, *Books of the Year*

What if you could change husbands as easily as a lightbulb?

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. And then another one appears. Lauren’s attic, she slowly realises, is creating an endless supply of husbands for her. There’s:

The one who’s too hot (there must be a catch).
The one who pretends to play music on her toes.
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?

'Huge fun' KATE ATKINSON
'A wonderful, wonderful novel' JENNIE GODFREY
'The most fun I've had reading in the longest time' MARIAN KEYES
'A time-bending gem' GABRIELLE ZEVIN

THE NO 1 KINDLE BESTSELLER
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
BEST SUMMER READ IN THE GUARDIAN, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, RED & DAILY MAIL

***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!

  • Published: 22 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529920352
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Holly Gramazio

Holly Gramazio is a game designer, curator and writer, originally from Adelaide and currently based in London. She founded the Now Play This, a games festival at Somerset House; wrote the script for the indie videogame Dicey Dragons which sold over 850,000 copies and won the Indiecade Grant Jury Award; and she's worked on digital and physical games with amongst others Naomi Alderman, Lawrence Lek, Matheson Marcault, Hide&Seek, Warner Bros., Wellcome Trust, New Scientist Live, Tate Modern and the V&A. Holly has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide, co-wrote a book on games for MIT Press, and has written for the Wellcome Collection, the Guardian, Science Gallery, Open University, Tabletop Gaming magazine, the London Essays, Arc and Critical Hits. www.hollygramazio.net

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