Maria Joan Hyland is an ex-lawyer and the author of three novels: How the Light Gets In, Carry Me Down and This Is How. Hyland is a lecturer in creative writing at the Manchester Centre for New Writing. Carry Me Down was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Hawthornden Prize and the Encore Prize.
Maria Joan Hyland is an ex-lawyer and the author of three novels: How the Light Gets In, Carry Me Down and This Is How. Hyland is a lecturer in creative writing at the Manchester Centre for New Writing. Carry Me Down was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Hawthornden Prize and the Encore Prize.
