The Lodgers by Holly Pester

The Lodgers by Holly Pester

A burlesque, dark comedy about lodgings, lovers, and mother-daughter bonds that falter across time and tenancies.

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 precarityThis 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
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

Holly Pester is a poet and writer. She has worked in sound art and performance, with original dramatic work on BBC Radio 4, and collaborations with Serpentine Galleries, Women's Art Library, and Wellcome Collection. Her poetry has been published extensively, appearing in Poetry Review, The White Review, Poetry London. Her fiction has been published in Granta and anthologised in Protest (Comma Press, 2018). Comic Timing, her Forward Prize-nominated first full collection of poetry, was published by Granta, 2021. She currently lives in Colchester, Essex.

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ISBN 13	9781783789832
ISBN 10	1783789832
Title	The Lodgers
Author	Holly Pester
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Granta Books
Year published	2024-02-01
Number of pages	224
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