I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There

Absorbing and eerie … Full of wry observations about the status markers of modern life … Lanigan has a beautiful and distinct writing style, and her book is a hugely enjoyable portrait of the horrors of renting in London * Sunday Times *A very funny and original take on the vagaries and indignities of endless renting … Rife with sharply observed but subtle insights on class and money * Rachel Connolly, author of Lazy City *A deeply compelling and melancholic modern ghost story, which draws upon the tropes of gothic to examine with piercing precision and wry humour the insidiousness, malignancy, and all-encompassing bleakness of the housing market. This novel is sharp and sad and incisive * Susannah Dickey, author of Common Decency *A smart, funny and, occasionally, terrifying story of love, rental and millennial angst. With rare skill and eerie precision, Lanigan captures the small joys and mundane horrors of the current moment. Beautifully written, frequently hilarious, and maddeningly real. * Seamas O’Reilly, author of Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? *Róisín Lanigan has been threatening to be the next great Irish writer for ages, so I’m glad she’s finally sat down and done it * Joel Golby *This novel deftly pulls off so much at once - it’s compulsively readable, thrilling and tense, laugh-out-loud funny and emotionally astute. I Want To Go Home But I’m Already There is one of the best things I’ve read on the psychological horrors of private renting, and what damp, overpriced flats can do to our emotional lives. Hilarious, horrifying, truly original. I loved it * Oisín McKenna, author of Evenings and Weekends *So unsettling and atmospheric and just devastatingly sad … An intensely strange and claustrophobic novel, in which a young couple’s attempts to establish a home together give way to unsettling surreal episodes and disturbing lapses in the protagonist’s memory. Róisín Lanigan masterfully draws on ghost story tropes to suggest the nightmare of being trapped in financial insecurity and a bad relationship. What I really loved about this novel, though, was its resistance to a single interpretation; it had a powerful ambiguity that lingered in my mind long after I’d finished reading. * Imogen Crimp, author of A Very Nice Girl *A gothic novel for generation rent - an uncanny, hilarious story about a young woman haunted by her flat * Ed Caesar, author of The Moth and the Mountain *Millennial renting with a gothic twist … Gripping and hauntingly relatable, Lanigan’s dark humour and sharp prose will resonate with anyone who’s braved the absurdities of the rental market * Amber Medland, author of Wild Pets *So, so good … It is this balance between the classic and the modern that Lanigan gets so right … An unnerving, beautifully teased-out novel that gives as much as it takes * Jess White, Lunchpoems *

R isin Lanigan is an editor and writer based in London and Belfast. Her work has appeared in i-D, VICE, The Atlantic, New Statesman, The Fence and Prospect, amongst other publications. She was longlisted for the Curtis Brown First Novel Prize in 2019, and won the Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award in 2020. I Want to Go Home But I’m Already There is her first novel.