This Is How_Hyland
2011 Longlist

This is How

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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.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR M.
J. Hyland

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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
England
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Text Publishing Company

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