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The Lock In

The Lock In

The Laugh-Out-Loud Romcom Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

Summary

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YOU'VE HEARD OF A LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY. NOW GET READY FOR A LOCKED ROOM ROM-COM!

'Entertaining, endearing, and truly unique. Found myself wincing and laughing with familiarity'
EMMA GANNON

'Hilarious' Evening Standard, 'Best New Books in 2021'
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Ellen and Alexa have survived hangovers, dodgy landlords and most of their twenties together.

But can they survive this?

One Saturday morning, while nursing The Hangover from Hell, a flooded kitchen leads best mates 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 of them are trapped.


Cue The Worst 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 realisation to hit. She is sure she knows Ben from somewhere.

Frantically searching her memories, Ellen tries to piece together exactly how they've met before.

When a distant memory finally comes to her, she desperately wonders: could Ben really be who she thinks he is . . .

And more importantly, what on earth is she going to do about it . . .

Welcome to The Lock In.

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 . . .

Fans of Dolly Alderton, Beth O'Leary and Mhairi McFarlane will LOVE this oh-so relatable tale of love, landlords and what can happen behind locked doors

AS SEEN IN GRAZIA


© Phoebe Luckhurst 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Reviews

  • Entertaining, endearing, and truly unique. Found myself wincing and laughing with familiarity
    Emma Gannon, bestselling author of Olive

About the author

Phoebe Luckhurst

Phoebe Luckhurst was born in London and brought up in Glasgow. She is a Senior Commissioning Editor at The Sunday Times Magazine, and has written features and interviews for the Guardian, Sunday Times Style, Elle, ES Magazine, Grazia, the Telegraph and Vogue. Phoebe 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.
The Lock In was her debut novel, and her second, The Back Up Man, will be published in 2023.
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