Hermione Hoby grew up in south London and has lived in New York since 2010. She is a freelance journalist who writes about culture and gender for publications including the New Yorker, the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Times Literary Supplement. She also writes the "Stranger of the Week" column for the Awl. Neon in Daylight is her first novel.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Hermione Hoby recommends
Loneliness & Company (2024)
Charlee Dyroff
"To inflict the demand of 'utility' on a novel is to succumb to just the sort of doomed tech logic that Dyroff skewers so nimbly and with so much intelligence in her debut. Nonetheless, if one use for literature is to make us feel less alone, then the author has succeeded brilliantly with Loneliness & Company. This is a tender, visionary, wide-hearted book that offers itself as a course corrective to our hyper-quantified, algorithm-craven age."
The Sky Was Ours (2024)
Joe Fassler
"Humane, cinematic, and unstinting in wonder, Fassler's debut - a captivating tale of freedom and disenchantment - asks nothing less than what it might mean to live an uncompromised life in a terribly compromised world. It is a beautiful achievement."
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Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
"Here come three indelible women and, with them, one of contemporary fiction's most delicious love triangles. Sarah Blakley-Cartwright has written a gem of a novel - super smart, slyly sexy, and crackling throughout with kindhearted humor."
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