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Super Host
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Super Host
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Publisher's Summary
"Get ready to smile.... [A] sweet story and the perfect antidote to the chaos that’s been 2021." (the Skimm)
A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by heart.
Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now, at age 55, 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.
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.
Warm, witty, and utterly humane, Super Host offers a captivating portrait of middle age, relationships, and what it truly means to take a new chance at life.
What the critics say
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The New York Times Book Review's 13 New Books to Watch For in February
Entertainment Weekly's Best New Books to Read in February
Boston Magazine's 42 Books to Help You Get Through the Rest of Quarantine
Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021
PureWow's 9 Books We Can't Wait to Read in February
“Russo’s clever debut evokes a time when travel wasn’t so fraught and strangers could get close enough to learn something about themselves.” —The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
“Here’s that rare thing: a wise, literary novel that is also funny as hell...the perfect antidote to this time of being shut in at home. Super Host gives me hope for the future, when we can all open our doors, and our hearts, once more.” —Jennifer Finney Boylan, Buzzfeed
"Brimming with...pure affection." —The New York Times Book Review