Yrsa Daley-Ward is the esteemed poet of The How, bone, and The Terrible and now her debut novel The Catch is one of the best books of the year so far. In it, estranged twin sisters are forced back into each other’s lives when a woman who looks exactly like their vanished mother appears in London, unchanged by time. As they clash over the woman’s identity, they must confront buried truths about their past and the cost of choosing oneself.
We asked Daley-Ward to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know her and the books that shaped her life.
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