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    • W&N

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    • Penelope Rawlins

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    • 7hr 50m

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    Neon in Daylight

    Hermione Hoby

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    'What do you get when a writer of extreme intelligence, insight, style and beauty chronicles the lives of self-absorbed hedonists - The Great Gatsby, Bright Lights, Big City, and now Neon in Daylight. Hermione Hoby held me spellbound' Ann Patchett

    A New York summer so hot the air is turning yellow.

    Kate, a young woman newly arrived from London, is determined to become the kind of person who is up for it and down for it - and not remotely troubled over how those two semantically opposed phrases could have come to mean the same thing.

    In the sweltering city, she encounters Bill, a once-lauded now booze-sodden novelist, and Inez, his teenage daughter who makes extra cash catering to the sexual fantasies of men she has met online - and falls into a complex infatuation with them both.

    (p) Orion Publishing Group 2018

    Praise for Neon in Daylight

    • Hoby is so good at unpacking all the strange dynamics at work in sex and desire

    • This book pulses with the sticky heat of summer and sex and power and desire ... a deliriously beautiful tale - Nylon

    • A radiant first novel with antecedents in the great novels of the 1970s: Renata Adler's Speedboat, Elizabeth Hardwick's Sleepless Nights, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays - New York Times

    • A gorgeously vibrant story about the thrill and adventure of finding yourself in a new city - Esquire

    • Hoby's descriptive language is spectacular, like that of Elif Batuman with a freer spirit or Eve Babitz if she were writing about the opposite coast ... The book is irresistible - Los Angeles Review of Books

    • Highly propulsive reading - Booklist

    • Captivating - Elle

    Hermione Hoby

    Hermione Hoby

    Hermione Hoby grew up in south London. After working for the Observer, she moved to New York. She is a freelance journalist who writes for publications including the New Yorker, the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Times Literary Supplement. She has interviewed hundreds of actors, writers, pop stars and other cultural figures including Toni Morrison, Meryl Streep, Naomi Campbell, and Debbie Harry. NEON IN DAYLIGHT is her first novel.

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