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Urban gothic: I Want to Go Home, But I’m Already There, by Roisin Lanigan, reviewed

A rented London flat starts to exude hostility and malevolence – or could our impressionable heroine just be imagining it?

Sarah Ditum
Roisin Lanigan.  Robin Christian
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 12 April 2025
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    Roisin Lanigan

    Fig Tree, pp. 288, £16

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