In September, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “The Hypocrite,” by Jo Hamya. Welcome to the Book Review Book Club Learn More About the Book Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘The Hypocrite’ ...

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Jo Hamya’s “The Hypocrite” toggles primarily between the perspectives of Sophia, a 28-year-old playwright in London, and her father, a famous writer who is referred to, pointedly, only as “Sophia’s ...

Jo Hamya discusses her debut novel, Three Rooms, the story of a young woman navigating housing, privilege and early adulthood in England amid news of Brexit and a surge of nationalism. The unnamed ...

A playwright turns the tables on her author father by making him the subject of her new play — a fact he doesn't discover until the curtains rise — in Jo Hamya's new novel, "The Hypocrite." When it ...

Jo Hamya’s impressive novel “The Hypocrite” opens with an ambush. A famous and now elderly British novelist is attending the matinee performance of a play written by his daughter Sophia. In his heyday ...

A man sits in a theater and watches his life acted out onstage. Though he is a famous writer, it is not his play; though it is his life, he cannot control the outcome. He writhes in his seat, wants to ...

A young woman struggles to find a home and stable job in a smart and acerbic debut that inverts the coming-of-age arc Set during the pre-Brexit tumult that did for Theresa May and anointed Boris ...

A fraught, polemical debut novel about precarious work and housing, and the effects on women’s ambitions There are writers that Jo Hamya admires: Virginia Woolf, for one. Lines from A Room of One’s ...

The unnamed narrator of Jo Hamya's debut novel "Three Rooms" tells herself, you are brown and bourgeois, and the internet does not believe you exist. She wants her own place but can't afford it - ...