Hermione Hoby grew up in south London, graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2007 with a double first in English Literature, and moved to New York in 2010. She writes about books and culture for the Guardian, New York Times, New Yorker and others. Her debut novel, Neon in Daylight, a two-times New York Times editors’ choice, is published by Catapult in the United States and Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the United Kingdom.