2011 Longlist
This is How
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.
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
Publisher
Text Publishing Company
Nominating Library
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