<p><b><i>The House That Groaned</i> is a graphic novel that explores bodies and the spaces they inhabit.</b><br><br>It is set in an old Victorian tenement housing six lonely individuals who could only have stepped out of the pages of a comic book. There is the retoucher who cannot touch, a grandmother who literally blends into the background and a twenty-something bloke who''s sexually attracted to diseased women. <br><br>Yet, as we learn the stories behind these extreme characters, it becomes apparent that we may share simlar issues - as individuals and as a society.</p>