The Hypocrite

<p><b><h3>A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN <i>TIME</i>, THE <i>DAILY MAIL</i>, THE <i>INDEPENDENT</i>, <i>GOOD HOUSEKEEPING </i>AND THE <i>ATLANTIC</i></h3></b><br><b>''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'' DAVID NICHOLLS</b><br><br><b>''A slippery, excellent exploration of sexual politics, creative appropriation, and family dynamics . . . It lands its ending with all the force of a sharp knife hurled at a bullseye'' <i>VANITY FAIR</i></b><br><br>Sicily, 2010. Sophia, on the cusp of adulthood, spends a long hot summer with her father, a successful author. Over the course of that holiday, their relationship will fracture.<br><br>London, 2020. Sophia''s father, now 61, sits in a large theatre, surrounded by strangers, watching his daughter''s first play. A play that takes that Sicilian holiday as its subject and will force him to watch his purported crimes re-enacted. Set over the course of one climactic day, this is the story of a father and a daughter, of all that divides and binds them.<br><br><b>''Wickedly funny. A perfect novel'' SARAH BERNSTEIN</b><br><br><b>''Brilliant . . . With a precision of language that ought to make Hamya''s contemporaries quake and a tenderness you don''t see coming'' <i>ATLANTIC</i></b></p>