THE LODGERS. The Thrush family aren’t what you’d call ‘normal’.

Harassed, self-absorbed penny pinchers Mum (Daphne) and Dad (Henry) try to make do by taking in student lodgers. Along with their three hapless children (one trapped in infinite babyhood), they inhabit a world where nothing is quite as it seems. Smatterings of menace and absurdity sabotage any glimpses of normality.

When the grandmother disappears and the police open an investigation, their fractured lives turn sinister. Has Granny merely seized an opportunity to flee? Or is there a more ominous explanation for her disappearance?

With two murders… an unexpected pregnancy… a bizarre French holiday… and a plethora of peculiar lodgers, what happens to this odd but strangely endearing family, teases expectation and takes you by surprise.  

A.M. Bauld’s comic novel The Lodgers is published through Kindle Direct Publishing as a paperback and eBook, and is available from Amazon now. The eBook is free to over 1 million Kindle Unlimited members members or £3.99. The paperback costs £9.99. It has 327 pages.