Winston the Third

Home ownership was supposed to mean security. Instead, Winston the Third has council tax for the dead.A bill addressed to seven deceased residents lands beneath the Camden tattoo studio, exposing the basement Winston has occupied illegally for nine years. The building remembers everyone who ever left, its dead landlord still considers ownership eternal, and the council would like somebody living to explain the occupancy status.Then the brass zero disappears. Doors begin returning former residents. A freehold dispute turns supernatural, and an eviction threatens to make the household property again.To keep the people who chose the building from being claimed by it, Winston must untangle title, memory, care and belonging with Mags, Benedict, Lola and a collection of furious residents who refuse to be classified.Darkly funny, foul-mouthed and gloriously spiteful, Rent, Relics and Other Household Emergencies is an urban fantasy about found family, cursed bureaucracy and the difference between being owned and choosing to stay.

Home ownership was supposed to mean security. Instead, Winston the Third has council tax for the dead.A bill addressed to seven deceased residents lands beneath the Camden tattoo studio, exposing the basement Winston has occupied illegally for nine years. The building remembers everyone who ever left, its dead landlord still considers ownership eternal, and the council would like somebody living to explain the occupancy status.Then the brass zero disappears. Doors begin returning former residents. A freehold dispute turns supernatural, and an eviction threatens to make the household property again.To keep the people who chose the building from being claimed by it, Winston must untangle title, memory, care and belonging with Mags, Benedict, Lola and a collection of furious residents who refuse to be classified.Darkly funny, foul-mouthed and gloriously spiteful, Rent, Relics and Other Household Emergencies is an urban fantasy about found family, cursed bureaucracy and the difference between being owned and choosing to stay.