Yrsa Daley-Ward: “How could anyone keep themselves all the way out of a novel?”

Yrsa Daley-Ward: “How could anyone keep themselves all the way out of a novel?”

Yrsa Daley-Ward was born in 1989 in Chorley, Lancashire. She is a model, poet and writer who has won the 2019 PEN Ackerley Prize for her 2018 memoir The Terrible. In 2020, Daley-Ward co-wrote Black is King, Beyoncé’s musical film and visual album. Her debut novel, The Catch, is a roman d’analyse focusing on three women: a mother and her twin daughters. In what is described by the judges as “an extraordinary shape-shifting, genre-defying work,” t…