Homesick

A story of falling out of love from the winner of the Comedy Women in Print Award, for fans of Monica Heisey and Dolly Alderton Mara becomes an ''heiress'' overnight after her father''s death. She wants to buy a flat to escape the awful London rental market and her equally awful childhood-friend-turned-housemate, Lewis (who refuses to wash up cutlery because it makes him feel weird ). And she wants her boyfriend, Tom, to move into the new flat with her. Slightly more difficult now that he has decided to leave London - and Mara. As Mara and Tom navigate their break-up/non-break-up, Mara becomes fixated on the perfect couple living in the flat above her. While her best friend accuses her of being self-involved and her already overfamiliar boss keeps getting her drunker and drunker, the Happy Couple become a symbol for everything Mara and Tom could have been - but, crucially, are not.

Product details

• Authors: Silvia Saunders
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9780008667016
• ISBN: 978-0-00-866701-6
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 222 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > English; Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Adult & contemporary romance, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / City Life, Family life fiction, Speculative fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Myth & legend told as fiction, Satirical fiction & parodies, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Modern and Contemporary romance