I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There

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This very modern ghost story set against the backdrop of the rental crisis is set to be a classic. Darkly funny, this portrait of loneliness, loss and belonging will have you laughing then weeping in quick succession. A great book club select When Aine moves in with her boyfriend, she knows she should be content — but there’s something creepy about their flat. Imagine the rental crisis, except it’s a ghost story So unsettling and atmospheric and just devastatingly sad ... An intensely strange and claustrophobic novel, in which a young couple’s attempts to establish a home together give way to unsettling surreal episodes and disturbing lapses in the protagonist’s memory. Róisín Lanigan masterfully draws on ghost story tropes to suggest the nightmare of being trapped in financial insecurity and a bad relationship. What I really loved about this novel, though, was its resistance to a single interpretation; it had a powerful ambiguity that lingered in my mind long after I’d finished reading. Impressive ... A chilling ghost story cleverly interwoven with the anxieties, paranoia and claustrophobia of renting, and the commersurate pressures on relationships and friendships ... Perfectly portraying the dark absurdities of modern living, this will be perfect for fans of Eliza Clark, Julia Armfield and Naoise Dolan A gothic novel for generation rent - an uncanny, hilarious story about a young woman haunted by her flat Millennial renting with a gothic twist ... Gripping and hauntingly relatable, Lanigan’s dark humour and sharp prose will resonate with anyone who’s braved the absurdities of the rental market So, so good ... It is this balance between the classic and the modern that Lanigan gets so right ... An unnerving, beautifully teased-out novel that gives as much as it takes This novel deftly pulls off so much at once - it's compulsively readable, thrilling and tense, laugh-out-loud funny and emotionally astute. I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There is one of the best things I've read on the psychological horrors of private renting, and what damp, overpriced flats can do to our emotional lives. Hilarious, horrifying, truly original. I loved it Expand reviews