The Husbands was a total change for me and I absolutely loved it. Such a fun premise and story.
Lauren returns to her flat after a drunken night out with mates and finds a man living there, a man who claims he is her husband. Trying not to panic she warily talks to him and he does seem to know an awful lot about their life together. When however he goes up into the attic to change the blown bulb, a different husband comes back. With each change, Lauren discovers her apartment has changed as well as her job and even her appearance. If she doesn’t like the husband or lives with him for a few weeks and is over him, she sends him back into the attic on some pretext and poof he changes. With each new husband she is able to follow their shared past through social media and her phones photos. If she has a job she doesn’t know how to do she calls in sick until her husband changes again. There are so many different paths her life takes, from a swinging couple to a wealthy lady of leisure. But as time goes on she realises she has to find a way out of this.
If you are looking for a light hearted big hearted book, this is for you. I highly recommend.

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Such a fun book. I don't think I have ever read a book like this. All those husbands and I couldn't stop reading. I didn't know where the story was going.

One day, Lauren comes home from a night out with friends to discover a strange man on her doorstep who claims to be her husband. Shocked and thinking she just needs to sober up, she starts trying to put the pieces together. She happens to discover that she has a magic attic where if a husband goes in, a different one comes out, and with a new husband comes a different life. So, how do you find your perfect life? You change husbands until the perfect one comes along. Lauren tries; she tries for more than a year to find that person, going through more than 200 husbands.

The book definitely had an interesting and unique premise! However, I don’t feel like it needed to be as long as it was - it felt like there was a lot of information repeating or we were given unnecessary detail.

Enjoyable read. If only it was as easy to change husbands!

The ending kind of caught me by surprise and was a bit abrupt.

Thank you to publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a copy of this book.

The premise is what ropes you in - it's extremely exciting and curiously you wonder "What could possibly go wrong?"

The answer is that she repeats the same process over and over again, think a time loop where the character wakes up each day to relive it.

Then it all ends unceremoniously. No why's, not plot twists, no answers to questions you didn't even have to begin with but the author thought pertinent you have.

Honestly wouldn't recommend is other than for a very, very light holiday read where you know you'll be frequently interrupted and do not mind.

Brilliant. Change your husband whenever he annoys you, if only..... Loved reading it and couldn't wait to find out the ending.

A very unique book and one which I thoroughly enjoyed reading. I was constantly intrigued by what was going on with the attic and was desperate to find out an explanation for what was happening!
The ending wasn’t what I expected and initially I was disappointed but the more I thought about the story after finishing it, the more I realised it was maybe never about the attic in the first place, but rather about Lauren’s choices and the journey for her to achieve acceptance of her relationship rather than constantly searching for perfection. Loved the humour in this book. A fun read!

This title had such an interesting premise – Lauren gets home one evening to find a husband she knows nothing about in her flat. Things go from strange to even weirder when she realises that this husband will swap place with another man if he climbs into the attic. What follows is Lauren’s life with hundreds of different husbands, some of whom are sent into the attic sooner than others, as she searches for the perfect husband, never knowing whether the next one to descend the ladder will be better or worse than the one before.

This was a fun read, and I did enjoy meeting the different characters – I found myself chuckling a fair amount and was really behind Lauren as a protagonist. I loved the various twists and turns along the way, as well as the Denver, CO storyline, but found the ending very abrupt and rather unsatisfying. Entertaining overall, however.

My thanks to the author, NetGalley, and the publisher for the arc to review.

I really enjoyed 'The Husbands' - entertaining, witty writing which kept me engaged from the outset.

Lauren comes home after a night out to find a strange man in her flat - even stranger to find out that she's apparently married to him. Her friends and family all know who he is and aren't at all surprised by his presence, its just Lauren who doesn't know what's going on. When husband Michael goes up into the attic, the next surprise is that an entirely different man comes down, and all of her home decor has changed in an instance. She sends this man straight back to the attic to look for Michael, only to have husband number 3 come down the ladder - and so it goes on. Every time her current husband goes into the attic, another man comes down and its another version of her life in a seemingly infinite supply.

I was completely captivated by the concept and the story-telling in this memorable and unique tale.

Not my usual type of book at all, but what fun! An enchanted loft that lets you see what your life could have been if you'd taken a different path, and how at some points in life we have to make decisions as to our future without knowing if it is the right thing.
Lots of humour, lots of what ifs and a potential swipe at modern dating culture.

On the whole I enjoyed this book. An attic producing an endless supply of husbands was a great and unusual premise. It has great characters, humour and enough happening to hold my attention. But the end seemed to appear very quickly and was a bit of an anticlimax for me. I’d have been happy to keep reading and meeting husbands for weeks!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the ARC in return for my honest and unbiased opinion.

This was a very entertaining read. Well-paced, witty and filled with the most entertaining collection of husbands, I really did enjoy this book!
Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the chance to read this ARC.

I really enjoyed this! Lighthearted, funny (laugh out loud at times), well paced and just a nice, easy, enjoyable read. Interesting to read the reviews and how they’ve divided opinion but I looked forward to picking this up and it really amused me, so that’s a winner for me!
4.5 stars
Thanks for NetGalley and the publisher for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Lauren thinks she's hallucinating or dreaming when all the evidence points to the fact the man standing on her landing is her husband. Last time she looked she was single and can't remember a thing despite the evidence on her phone - wedding photos, texts and messages. It slowly becomes apparent that husbands are replaced once they climb up to her attic. This creates a dilemma where she finds the process more confusing than on-line dating with other aspects of her life changing along with her men. Holly Gramazio manages to make this intriguing story believable, keeping you wondering what can happen next in the whirlwind of new lives.

The Husbands successfully manages to combine equal amounts of hilarity with profundity in this romantic comedy infused with magical realism.

Lauren finds herself in a time-bendingly bizarre situation where a never-ending stream of eclectic husbands she has no recollection of start appearing out of her attic one by one. (Special shoutout to husband 200+ Zach Ephron, and his codeine-fuelled Zac Efron movie marathon. He was both delightful and drab).

As the frequency of husbands increases, Lauren becomes quick to judge, and quicker to shove her husbands up the attic and out of existence in the search of the perfect husband and the perfect life. Inevitably philosophical anxieties of life, love and finding “the one” begin to plague Lauren.
As such, the reader is confronted with questions like:
how do you find contentment with what you have if the possibility of something better is always within easy reach?

I really enjoyed the parallels to modern dating, where first impressions are everything and split-second swiping on apps could be the beginning or ending of meaningful or “fated” connections.

This was a witty and refreshing debut from @holly_gramazio and I’ll definitely be on the look out for future novels.

Brilliant. Just such an interesting premise, wonderfully executed. It reminds me of The Midnight Library only the complete opposite, but if you've read it you'll know what I mean. I love that we never find out what caused the magic attic, and I love how Lauren decides. In a world where there are so many books riffing on the same premise, read something different. Pick a new husband.

A funny and original multiverse story about a woman whose attic returns a different husband from the one that went up there and a correspondingly different life to go with him. The only constants are her sister, friends and next door neighbours.. When things don’t work out, she can send the husband back up to the attic. There are a few repeat occurrences and some husbands that are better than others, including “the one that got away”.

Amusing, different and undemanding - a good book club choice.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review an advance copy.

One night Lauren returns home to find a strange man in her flat - only he claims to be her husband. Strangely, everything around her backs him up: the photos of their wedding, the names on their bills, & the photos on her phone. When he climbs up into the attic & a different man emerges, also claiming to be her husband, Lauren slowly realises that her attic is creating an endless supply of different husbands for her. As one is exchanged for another over & over, Lauren begins to wonder 'how do you know when you have the right one?'

One look at the synopsis & I knew I had to request this one. The idea behind the book was an excellent one & the author could have gone anywhere with the storyline. The first 35% was really engaging & gently funny, however, it went on & on for far too long. The character of Bohai was brought in & I thought this heralded something resembling a plot about to begin, but ultimately his story arc didn't really amount to anything either. It was the literary equivalent of a fairground carousel - it looks good but ultimately you don't actually go anywhere. 2.5 stars (rounded up)

My thanks to NetGalley & publishers, Random House UK/Chatto & Windus, for the opportunity to read an ARC.

A delightfully quirky take on the rom-com. A woman comes home one day to a husband she's not married - nor met. Turns out her Attic is producing a new husband for her every time the old one goes up. It's "everything everywhere all at once" multidimensions with a "really good actually" sensibility. Funny and charming search to understand what you want in life. The protagonist makes some wild decisions as the book progresses, but by then, I was invested in the world and willing to go with it. Highly enjoyable!

Unfortunately, this one was not for me! I love the cover, and the plot sounded so unique and interesting and I was really looking forward to it.

What did I like: occasionally it was pretty funny. I liked the side characters although I wish we got to see a bit more of them - especially her sister and her kids. I liked the plot with Bohai and he was a great character.

What I didn’t like: the plot just never seemed to go anywhere! Every time I thought something was happening and it was picking up, it would go back to the repetitiveness of the rest of the book. The ending was SO disappointing, I thought it was going to have a bit moral epiphany about love, marriage, and life but… it didn’t. It was a very fast and sudden ending and was anticlimactic. There was no explanation as to what or how this was happening, even though I’m not sure what explanation there could’ve been, but I was still disappointed.

Overall, I think some people will like this and some people won’t! For me, it was too repetitive and didn’t have an interesting enough plot.