Book Review: Poet Holly Pestor’s debut novel The Lodgers delivers a thoroughly rewarding read

After a year away, a young woman returns to the small English coastal town where she grew up, a place she refers to as “the origin point of boredom”. But she is not returning to her childhood home, or the welcoming arms of a family who have missed her during her time away. Instead, she is sub-letting a bedroom in a jaded apartment block overlooking her mother Moffa’s house.