30 best new books to read, from Sally Rooney to Percival Everett A romantic comedy with a surrealist twist, The Husbands follows Lauren, a single, thirtysomething woman who returns to her two-bed flat in South London one evening to find she has a husband.
Over the course of more than 200 husbands at a near-daily rate, the book becomes a satirical and smart dissection of swipe-right dating, as Lauren sends the husbands she finds minor faults with back into the attic to start afresh with a new one (if only life was that easy).
With every new husband who descends from the magic attic, Lauren finds she also has a new life, habits and sometimes even career.
If that wasn’t unexpected enough, she then discovers if she sends her husband into the attic he’ll be replaced by a new one.
From needy and aloof husbands to cheating or just plain weird husbands, Gramazio’s descriptions of the various partners are a riot to read.
