Books like The Husbands
Lauren comes home from a hen party to find a man in her flat who says he is her husband. When he goes up into the attic, a different husband comes down.
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Landline
Georgie McCool, a TV comedy writer whose marriage is in trouble, stays in Los Angeles to work over Christmas while her husband takes their daughters to Omaha, and finds that the old yellow phone in her childhood bedroom lets her talk to him in 1998, before they were married.
Cassandra in Reverse
Cassandra Dankworth, who is autistic and likes life to follow its rules, loses her job and her boyfriend on the same day, and then finds she can go back in time and try both again.
Nothing to See Here
Lillian, stuck in a dead-end life in Tennessee, is offered a job by her old friend Madison, now married to a senator: looking after his ten-year-old twins from his first marriage, who burst into flames when they get upset.
The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Across one long night in Kyoto, a black-haired college freshman sets off alone to drink and explore, and the upperclassman who adores her keeps contriving to cross her path, through bars, a used-book fair and a festival.
Anansi Boys
An ordinary London accountant learns at his father's funeral that the old man was the trickster god Anansi and that he has a brother, who turns up and starts taking over his life.
Good Material
Andy, a stand-up comedian in London on the edge of forty, is dumped by Jen, the love of his life, and sets out to work out what went wrong.
High Fidelity
When his girlfriend Laura leaves him, Rob Fleming, a thirty-five-year-old who runs a failing record shop in north London, ranks his all-time top five breakups and goes back to find out what went wrong with each one.
Half a Soul
Ever since a faerie lord took half her soul when she was a child, Theodora Ettings has felt very little, which makes her London Season awkward, until she meets Lord Elias Wilder, the rude, unfashionable magician who might help her.
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Becky Bloomwood writes about personal finance for a London magazine and cannot stop shopping, and as the letters from her bank grow sterner she tries cutting back, earning more and hiding from her debts, with diminishing success.
The Rosie Project
Don Tillman, a genetics professor who lives by strict routines, designs a questionnaire to find the perfect wife, and then meets Rosie, who fails every criterion and needs his help to find her biological father.
His Only Wife
Afi Tekple, a young seamstress in a small Ghanaian town, is married to Elikem, a wealthy man she barely knows, who misses the wedding, and moves to Accra, where she learns that his family married her to him to draw him away from another woman.
Bridget Jones's Diary
A year in the diary of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something Londoner counting calories, cigarettes and units of alcohol, torn between her charming, caddish boss Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy, a stiff barrister her mother keeps pushing at her.