How to Stay Sane in a House Share

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Keeping it together when you're still living together - the ultimate house-sharing handbook 'A brilliantly researched and compelling read.' - Emma Reed Turrell 'An essential guide to modern living' - Daisy Buchanan 'This is a comprehensive, thoughtful guide that provides much-needed practical advice but crucial a vital sense of optimism. A timely helping hand!' - Yomi Adegoke How do you keep it together when you're living together If you've found yourself asking this question (returning home from a day of winning in the workplace only to realise you've lost the fight for your own living room - again) then it's likely that you're one of the millions of people living in a house share in the UK, US and beyond. Between marriage rates dwindling and the cost-of-living soaring, house sharing is becoming more and more common - but that doesn't stop it being one of the most complex living set-ups of the 21st century. Thankfully, journalist and serial house sharer, Alice Wilkinson is here to help you stay sane when you're feeling stuck. This is the friendly and informed guide to house sharing you have been waiting for. From how to choose the right housemate to navigating conflict when it (inevitably) arises, Alice draws on interviews with experts such as Professor Dunbar, 'The Millennial Therapist' Sara Kubric and more to explore the anxieties that run the lives of young professionals living in house shares to help create a more harmonious home.

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Kind, wise and genuinely useful - this book is an essential guide to modern living, and hugely comforting too. -- Daisy Buchanan
A brilliantly researched and compelling read. It tackles an area of relationships that has so far been overlooked and combines deep psychological thinking with practical advice and takeaways. I was never a fan of houseshares and now I know why, but I also understand myself and others much better in a myriad ways that will help me in all areas of life in future. -- Emma Reed Turrell
A brilliant look at modern womanhood through the relatable, Big Roasting Tin, bath mat, broken boiler lens of house shares. * Nell Frizzell *
A deeply insightful, practical and sensitive exploration of the housing crisis and what it means to live in a house share today. Alice has crafted this book from a place of personal experience, backed up by research and science, the resulting book should be required reading for all house sharers. * Rosie Kellett *
This is a comprehensive, thoughtful guide that provides much-needed practical advice but crucially a vital sense of optimism. A timely helping hand! * Yomi Adegoke *
Alice Wilkinson serves as a wise and empathetic guide to one of the most unexamined yet fraught aspects of millennial life. But she also goes deeper, exploring themes that are central to a life well lived: the importance of self examination, how to set boundaries, and finding connection in a disconnected world. The book is filled with funny, cringeworthy, and painfully relatable stories that add up to a fascinating look into human behaviour. * Rosie Spinks *
Im stunned that no one else has really broached this before, making this a first-of-its-kind look at what is right in front of so many of us. It takes in all of the joy and misery of the way so many modern women live today and deftly engages with how space - both personal and political - comes from where we rest and how we share those vulnerable moments. Full of practical and purposeful advice for anyone seeking to house-share. * Sophie Wilkinson *
A love letter to home and friendship and a damning indictment of our housing crisis. * Kieran Yates *

Author Bio

Alice Wilkinson is a writer, editor and journalist at The Telegraph. A previous editor of Waitrose Health, her writing has featured in many national newspapers and magazines. In 2019 Alice was shortlisted for the Professional Publishers Award (PPA) for Writer of the Year. The following year, she was selected as one of the PPA's 30 Under 30. In 2022, she was shortlisted for the British Society of Magazine Editor's New Editor of The Year. Today, Alice writes a Substack newsletter titled 'Addressing' where she explores house sharing, home and belonging.