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2011 Nominated

This is How

M. J. Hyland

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

When his fiancée breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves into a boarding house in a remote seaside town. But in spite of his hopes and determination to build a better life, nothing goes to plan and Patrick is soon driven to take a desperate and chilling course of action.

M. J. Hyland

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR M.
J. Hyland

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.

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

A fabulously bleak and cheerless story of a young misfit loner. A psychological drama from start to finish, as the main character’s sociopathic tendencies come to the fore.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United Kingdom
Original Language
English
Author
M. J. Hyland
Publisher
Text Publishing Company
Nominating Library
State Library of South Australia - Australia

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