The Husbands A Read with Jenna Pick, Holly Gramazio
The Husbands A Read with Jenna Pick, Holly Gramazio
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The Husbands: A Read with Jenna Pick

Bestseller

Author: Holly Gramazio

Narrator: Miranda Raison

Unabridged: 10 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/02/2024


Synopsis

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA’S APRIL BOOK CLUB PICK • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2024 BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, PEOPLE, PARADE, AND BOOKRIOT

The Husbands delights in asking: how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world of never-ending options? (“A bottomless champagne flute of a novel —The Washington Post)

When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There’s only one problem—she’s not married. She’s never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they’ve been together for years.

As Lauren tries to puzzle out how she could be married to someone she can’t remember meeting, Michael goes to the attic to change a lightbulb and abruptly disappears. In his place, a new man emerges, and a new, slightly altered life re-forms around her. Realizing that her attic is creating an infinite supply of husbands, Lauren confronts the question: If swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you’ve taken the right path? When do you stop trying to do better and start actually living?

About The Author

HOLLY GRAMAZIO is a writer, game designer and curator from Adelaide, currently based in London. She founded the experimental games festival Now Play This, and wrote the script for the award-winning indie videogame Dicey Dungeons. She’s particularly interested in rules, play, cities, gardens, games that get people acting creatively, and art that gets people interacting with their surroundings in new ways. The Husbands is her first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Yun on May 09, 2025

So let me get this straight. Anytime you tire of your current husband, you can just send him off to the attic and a new one will appear? Hmm, you don't say. I can't resist a good premise. And this is undoubtedly a compelling one. But what starts out as a fun and possibly thought-provoking read just k......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on March 29, 2024

The only reason this fun, twisty, insightful book didn't get five stars is because I might still find a better one in the attic.......more

Goodreads review by Jayme on April 02, 2024

LESS IS MORE “When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There’s only one problem—she’s not married”. But before she can figure out how she could possibly be married to someone she can’t remember meeting, Michael goes to the attic......more

Goodreads review by Ali on April 03, 2024

WHY IS THIS BOOK SO LONG?! It did not need to be more than 200 pages max. This was one of my most anticipated reads this year, and I pretty well speed read my way through this book. This concept is so amazing, but you get so many husbands, with almost no time invested in them, with the most one note......more

Goodreads review by Lala on January 10, 2025

This book was the perfect exploration of this strange concept. In a fabulist story, it remained so real and mundane. The repetitive googling trying to figure out what's going on, testing the magic attic over and over and over again, the cycle of contentedness to curiosity and back again...it was jus......more


Quotes

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2024 BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, PARADE, AND BOOKRIOT

“This book doesn’t get bogged down in the why or how of the situation. Instead, it thrives on its humor, tenderness, and delightful plot twists.”
—NPR

“Groundhog Day meets Bridget Jones’s Diary . . .[in] a screwball setup that Gramazio has tons of fun with.”
Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Gramazio masterfullyblends fantasy with realismas she puts a modern spin onthe timeless institution ofmarriage."
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette

“Delightfully addictive . . . a bottomless champagne flute of a novel.”
The Washington Post

"Charming...there’s plenty of intelligence and candor in the author’s creative spin on the conundrum of commitment."
Publishers Weekly

"Richly characterized, philosophical, and funny. I enjoyed all the husbands, even (especially?) the terrible ones. A time-bending gem about the way we live now."
Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

"The Husbands is a wily and wonderful exploration of modern decision-making, kaleidoscopic and bright and very, very funny."
—Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had

"Brilliant, hilarious, surprising and wise. I devoured it."
—Naomi Alderman, New York Times bestselling author of The Power and The Future

"The Husbands is WONDERFUL: fresh, original, hugely entertaining and oddly comforting. . . . I laughed out loud countless times. . . . [This] was the most fun I’ve had reading in the longest time. It is an utter delight."
—Marian Keyes, bestselling author of Again, Rachel and Grown Ups

"Clever, fresh, inventive, The Husbands is wholly original."
—Louise O’Neill, author of
Asking For It

"The plot allows the author to explore current attitudes and approaches to dating and mating from a fresh perspective... A fun take on a big question."
Kirkus