Renting is a nightmare... Áine should be feeling happy with her life. She's just moved in
with Elliot. Their new flat is in an affluent neighbourhood surrounded by bakeries yoga
studios and organic vegetable shops. They even have a garden. And yet from the moment they
move in Áine can't shake the sense that there's something not quite right about the place...
It's not just the humourless estate agent and nameless landlord: it's the chill that seeps
through the draughty windows the damp spreading from the cellar door the way the organic
fruit and veg never lasts as long as it should. And most of all it's the upstairs neighbours
whose very presence makes peaceful coexistence very difficult indeed. The longer Áine spends
inside the flat - pretending to work from home dissecting messages from the friends whose
lives seem to have moved on without her - the less it feels like home. And as Áine fixates on
the cracks in the ceiling it becomes harder to ignore the cracks in her relationship with
Elliott... Brilliantly observed and darkly funny I Want to Go Home But I'm Already There is a
ghost story set in the rental crisis. A wonderfully clear-eyed portrait of loneliness loss and
belonging it examines what it means to feel at home. 'Absorbing and eerie ... Full of wry
observations about the status markers of modern life ... A hugely enjoyable portrait of the
horrors of renting' Sunday Times 'A brilliant satire of London's horrific housing market ...
It got under my skin in a way that made me shiver' Guardian 'A document of hellish times and
a map of our relationships with others ourselves and our demons - metaphorical and literal'
New Statesman '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 '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
