The Hypocrite A Novel

Jo Hamya

eBook - 2024

DAKOTA JOHNSON’S TEATIME PICTURES SEPTEMBER BOOK CLUB PICK ● From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father’s fall from grace into a play, and a father who increasingly fears his precocious daughter’s voice.“A sharp book, beautifully written.” —Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind and Entitlement"Excellent...I enjoyed the novel hugely...Like Edward St Aubyn and Anne Enright, Hamya is so good on generational conflict, the friction of family, and the damage done by charming but complacent men. But The Hypocrite is a strikingly original book too. I tore through it, shoulders... clenched but full of admiration." —David Nicholls, author of One Day, in Electric LiteratureAugust 2020. Sophia, a young playwright, awaits her... more