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Blue runs into purple runs into pink, or the other way around, depending on how one holds Catherine Lacey’s The Möbius Book. The spectrum of colour is meant to mirror the instability of her seventh book, “a hybrid work that is both non-fiction and fiction with no beginning and no ending”. The American author is no stranger to playing with boundaries, having invented a protagonist and a fictional biographer in Biography of X. But where that novel, shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize last year, homed in on other lives, here the focus is the author herself.

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