Super Host
<b>“Get ready to smile….[A] sweet story and the perfect antidote to the chaos that’s been 2021.” –t<i>he Skimm </i><br /><i><br /></i>A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by heart.</b><br /><br />Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now, at age fifty-five, his wife has left him, he hasn't sold a painting in two years, and his gallery wants to stop selling his work, claiming they'll have more value retrospectively...when he's dead. So, left with a large West London home and no income, he's forced to move into his artist's studio in the back garden and list his house on the popular vacation rental site, AirBed.<br /><br />A stranger now in his own home, with his daughter, Mia, off at art school, and any new relationships fizzling out at best, Bennett struggles to find purpose in his day-to-day. That all changes when three different guests--lonely American Alicia; tortured artist Emma; and cautiously optimistic divorcée Kirstie--unwittingly unlock the pieces of himself that have been lost to him for too long. <br /><br />Warm, witty, and utterly humane, <i>Super Host</i> offers a captivating portrait of middle age, relationships, and what it truly means to take a new chance at life.