Super Host

　　人到中年被迫歸零，落魄藝術家的生命之旅。
 
　　貝奈特(Bennett Driscoll)，一名榮獲透納奬提名的藝術家，曾經的藝術新星，如今卻被藝廊嫌棄。他已經超過兩年沒賣出一幅畫，藝廊想要終止合作，打算等他百年之後再來辦回顧展。年過半百的貝奈特無奈離開，回到自己西倫敦郊區的房子。
 
　　毫無收入，五十五歲的他，還得面對離婚後的現實與十八歲的女兒。索性搬到後院的工作室，把屋子租給旅客，賺取收入。房子被放到知名短期租屋網AIRBED，開啟貝奈特人生的另一段旅程。過去他緊追著衛報，查閱關於他藝術作品的評論，如今他只在網上看每則租屋好評與回饋，一心想成為超級房東。
 
　　從小有名氣的藝術家，變成在自家民宿拿著刷子與漂白水洗刷床單的管家，貝奈特有好一陣子都找不到人生的方向。但是隨著三個旅客的入住：孤獨的美國女子艾莉西亞、年輕藝術家艾瑪、和剛離婚的克絲蒂，貝奈特發現自己內心被遺忘的角落，逐漸重見天日。
 
　　《Super Host》是個充滿機智與溫暖的故事，精彩刻劃出中年生活的心境與人際關係的樣貌，讓讀者重拾改變人生的希望。

　　(文／博客來編譯)

　　A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by heart.

　　Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now, at age fifty-five, his wife has left him, he hasn't sold a painting in two years, and his gallery wants to stop selling his work, claiming they'll have more value retrospectively...when he's dead. So, left with a large West London home and no income, he's forced to move into his artist's studio in the back garden and list his house on the popular vacation rental site, AirBed.

　　A stranger now in his own home, with his daughter, Mia, off at art school, and any new relationships fizzling out at best, Bennett struggles to find purpose in his day-to-day. That all changes when three different guests--lonely American Alicia; tortured artist Emma; and cautiously optimistic divorcée Kirstie--unwittingly unlock the pieces of himself that have been lost to him for too long.

　　Warm, witty, and utterly humane, Super Host offers a captivating portrait of middle age, relationships, and what it truly means to take a new chance at life.