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  • Published: 27 May 2021
  • ISBN: 9781405949538
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384
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The Lock In

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





You've heard of a locked-room mystery, now dive into a locked room rom-com!
An old love. A stuck door. And the morning after the night before . . .

One Saturday morning a flooded kitchen leads best mates Ellen and Alexa into their attic.
But when Ben - Alexa's date from the night before - walks in, the handle breaks, and all are trapped.
While Ellen nurses her hangover, she watches her best friend fall for this gorgeous stranger.
Only to come to the horrifying realisation that she knows him from somewhere.
Frantically searching her memories, Ellen wonders: is Ben really who she thinks he is?
And more importantly, what on earth is she going to do about it . . . ?

  • Published: 27 May 2021
  • ISBN: 9781405949538
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384
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Praise for The Lock In

Hilarious

Evening Standard, 'Best New Books in 2021'

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

Emma Gannon, bestselling author of <i>Olive</i>

A funny, joyful hug of a book! A nostalgic, pitch perfect ode to the awkwardness and hilarity of yearning teenage years and house sharing in your twenties

Cressida McLaughlin

One to watch

The Bookseller

The year's most original romcom

ELLE

Funny and compelling from page one and so well written. Such a brilliant premise and really well executed. Officially a huge fan of Phoebe Luckhurst!

Lucy Vine, bestselling author of <i>Hot Mess</i>

Such a fun, clever, original and massively entertaining read . . . I love it, you'll love it

Lindsey Kelk

I loved this book. Brilliantly written and so perceptive on the trials and tribulations of Generation Rent, it's also screamingly funny, deliciously nostalgic and really just a very fun time. I almost wish they'd stayed locked in for longer

Lauren Bravo

Loved the concept and characters. . . it's very funny

Sarra Manning

An immensely readable, witty and well-crafted debut . . . a very millennial tale of love, loneliness and friendship

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On one hand a feel-good, laugh out loud funny escapist read, and on another a blistering critique of twentysomethings' experience of renting in the capital

Evening Standard

A high-concept romcom that's stuffed full of belly laughs and nostalgia

Red

'Best new good book to read'

Cosmopolitan

This will have you both cringing and crying with laughter

Woman's Weekly

Joyful

Stylist

David Nicholls for millennials . . . The Lock In is a dream read: an immaculately plotted romcom which vividly captures both late teenagehood and twentysomething houseshares

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This hilarious debut will give you all the lols you need this summer. A highly relatable comedy about flatmates, hangovers and terrible landlords

Evening Standard

Proper laugh-out-loud stuff

Fabulous Magazine

Hilarious

Woman

Beautifully written, warm and fun with a dose of early noughties nostalgia, The Lock In is a perfect summer read

Laura Kay, author of <i>The Split</i>

I LOVED this book . . . I highly recommend The Lock In if you fancy a fun summer time read

Carrie Hope Fletcher

Irresistible premise . . . addictive

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Blissfully funny

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