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This is How
Published 28 June 2010
ISBN 9781921656484
Format Paperback
Extent 400pp
AU Price $23.95
NZ Price $29.00

This is How

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28 June 2010
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28 June 2010
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When his fiancée breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves to a boarding house in a 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. 
This is How is a mesmerising and meticulously drawn portrait of a man whose unease in the world leads to his tragic undoing. Written with breathtaking wisdom and an astute insight into the human mind, M.J. Hyland's new book is a masterpiece that inspires horror and sympathy in equal measure.
Published 28 June 2010
ISBN 9781921656484
Format Paperback
Extent 400pp
AU Price $23.95
NZ Price $29.00

About the author

M.J. Hyland

M.J. Hyland was born in London to Irish parents in 1968 and spent her early childhood in Dublin. She studied English and Law at the University of Melbourne and worked as a lawyer for several years. How the Light Gets In, her first novel, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Age Book of the Year Award, and was the joint winner of the Best Young Australian Novelist Award. Her second novel, Carry Me Down, was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and won both the Hawthornden and Encore Prizes. Her most recent novel is This is How. Hyland lives in Manchester, England, where she teaches in the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester.
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Praise for This is How

'A tour de force. Hyland illuminates this man's damaged soul in such a steady, brilliant clarity that your heart breaks for him.' Helen Garner

PRH, PRH

'M. J. Hyland writes unflinchingly, with scalpel-sharp finesse. How the Light Gets In and Carry Me Down displayed a talent to delve into darkness. Her riveting follow-up, This Is How…is her finest novel yet.' Age

PRH, PRH

'Wholly convincing and quite unnerving. She has already earned with her first two novels a reputation as a writer of great originality and power, and this book can only add to that.' Sunday Age

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'Beautifully written and scary as hell.' North & South Magazine (NZ)

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'There's been much to admire in Hyland's work to date, but in This Is How—in the stunning control she exercises over her subject; in the way she is able to elicit for Patrick both our revulsion and our compassion—she's produced her best book yet.' Canberra Times

PRH, PRH

'Gripping and tense, with an unease that will stay with you. …an overwhelming sense of impending doom that belies the slow unfolding of events and makes this unputdownable.' West Australian

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