The Hypocrite

Critics Review

• I thought The Hypocrite was brilliant. Thrilling and unpredictable, as a story of misunderstanding and failed connection, told with a dreamy, Sofia Coppola-esque quality. As a portrayal of artistic creation fuelled by bitterness, The Hypocrite uncovers an uncomfortable truth: how a piece of art can both unify and alienate

  Natasha Brown, author of ASSEMBLY

• Sharp, witty and astute about parents and children, but never cruel; I enjoyed it hugely

  David Nicholls, ONE DAY

• The Hypocrite is an acid chamber piece that skewers the father, mother and daughter at its heart without denying them their messy, affecting humanity. It’s tense, it’s painful, it’s funny. I loved it

  Chris Power, author of A LONELY MAN

• I loved Jo Hamya’s elegantly plotted and wickedly funny The Hypocrite. A perfect and perfectly merciless novel

  Sarah Bernstein, author of the Booker-shortlisted STUDY FOR OBEDIENCE

• The Hypocrite is engrossing, acerbic and elegantly executed. Jo Hamya artfully reveals her characters’ flaws and vulnerabilities with humour, wit and style

  Lauren Aimee Curtis, author of STRANGERS AT THE PORT

• Hamya writes with real wit. Her style has rightly been compared to Rachel Cusk’s. With this original novel – sensitively observed and artfully paced – she breaks out into something of her own

  LITERARY REVIEW

• A taut, poised portrait of a father-daughter relationship and the attitudinal clash between generations

  THE BOOKSELLER, Editor's Choice

• The Hypocrite is a sharp book, beautifully written. Jo Hamya poses complex questions – about art and ethics, family life and sexual mores – and withholds from her reader any easy answers
  

  Rumaan Alam, author of LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND

• I relished the original emotional pulse of The Hypocrite, a compulsive tale of a reckoning with memory and responsibility played out in real time

  Laura Bailey

• [A] clever study of art, dysfunction and generational difference . . . a well-wrought and very clever book

  GUARDIAN

• An astute, funny-sad analysis of power, perception and memory that questions the value of art and the responsibilities – and egos – of those who make it

  MARIE CLAIRE

• Caustically funny

  THE INDEPENDENT

• The Hypocrite is a brooding, taut novel

  I PAPER

• A sharp, insightful read

  GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

• The plot moves with a smooth economy, brilliantly satirising all kinds of pretension, while offering psychological insights

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