I am so thrilled to be on The Lock In Blog Tour, a debut novel by Phoebe Luckhurst.
SYNOPSIS: Do you fondly remember messaging your crush on MSN after school?
Miss those shoes that never recovered from the sticky floors of your hometown nightclub?
And can't stand your spare-room housemate after lockdown?!
Then escape with this summer's most feel-good read!
Ellen and Alexa have survived hangovers, dodgy landlords and most of their twenties together.
But can they survive this
While nursing The Hangover from Hell, a flooded kitchen leads best friends Ellen and Alexa, and hapless housemate Jack, into their attic to turn off the water supply.
But when Ben - Alexa's date from the night before - walks in, the door slams, the handle breaks and all four are trapped.
Cue the Worst Ever morning-after-the-night-before.
As the hours tick by, Ellen nurses her sore head and watches as her best friend falls for this handsome stranger.
Only for a horrifying realization to hit. She is sure she knows Ben from somewhere.
Frantically searching her memories, Ellen pieces together exactly how they've met before.
Is Ben really who she thinks he is?
And, most importantly, what on earth is she going to do about it . . .
This is a hilarious story of housemates and hangovers and friendship and dating as four twenty-somethings discover what The Worst morning-after-the-night-before really looks like . . .
MY THOUGHTS:
This entertaining novel was a hoot of a read. Ellen, Alexa and Jack are flatmates; on the morning in question they find themselves locked in the attic with Alexa's date. An awkward situation for any of them to find themselves in, especially as they are all hungover from the night before and downstairs is flooding!!
So what to do in a crisis with only one mobile phone but lack of signal? Tweet!! Yes, Jack finds that his wifi signal comes and goes so by standing by the window he can get some wifi sporadically. As he makes his first tweet about his situation he gets a lot of likes and interest, so throughout the hours they are locked in the attic, he continues to make two more tweets about their dire situation and the secrets that are being shared in their confined space.
An easy, light-hearted read with plenty of humour, just what we need after the year we have faced due to the pandemic. I loved the pace of the novel and the chapters which alternated between each of the characters. The characters were likeable and their predicament realistic. It definitely made me think about what I would do in their shoes. I would most likely be the one using a box to pee in!! Much praise for Luckhurst's writing style and storyline, I was thoroughly entertained and eager to pick it up at any opportunity I had throughout the day. Highly recommend.
Many thanks to Sriya Varadharajan at Michael Josephs, Penguin for the invite to the blog tour and my gifted copy.
AUTHOR:
Phoebe Luckhurst was born in London and brought up in Glasgow. She is the Features Editor of the Evening Standard and appears regularly on their podcast, The Leader. She has written for the Guardian, Sunday Times Style, ELLE, ES Magazine, Grazia, the Telegraph and Vogue. She has had the theme tune to The OC stuck in her head since 2003 and once almost spent her student loan on a micro-pig. She no longer shops online when drunk.
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