M.J. Hyland is an ex-lawyer and the author of three
multi-award-winning novels: "How the Light Gets In, Carry Me Down,"
and" This is How."" Carry Me Down" was shortlisted for the Man
Booker Prize and won both the Hawthornden Prize and The Encore
Prize.
Hyland is also a lecturer in Creative Writing in The Centre for New
Writing at The University of Manchester where she runs fiction
workshops, alongside Martin Amis, Colm Toibin, and Jeanette
Winterson. She also runs regular fiction masterclasses in "The
Guardian" Masterclass Programme, and has twice been shortlisted for
the BBC Short Story Prize (2011 and 2012). She also publishes in"
The Guardian's ""How to Write" series, and has written nonfiction
for "The Financial Times, Granta, The New Yorker," and elsewhere.
Hyland is co-founder of The Hyland and Byrne Editing Firm (see -
editingfirm.com & mjhyland.com)
"A moving and compassionate portrait of a human being who is fully
himself and yet stands for all of us, for what we fear, or fear to
hope."--"New York Times Book Review"
"[A] visceral, deeply affecting tale . . . Causality is a question
at the heart of the gripping narrative . . . This is a
compassionate, disturbing novel, tragically showing a human
learning to appreciate life only when his own has been
incarcerated." --"The Independent" (UK)
"MJ Hyland is an expert anatomist of the bruises left on a fragile
mind by a hard world . . . Every word of Hyland's narrative -
observed with the bright, deranged precision of a Richard Dadd
painting - resonates."--"The Telegraph" (UK)
"This is How, the fearlessly disturbing new novel by M.J. Hyland,
takes us inside the mind not of an innocent but of a killer . . .
Young Patrick Oxby . . . Hyland's pared-down descriptions of
Patrick's life--as it once was and as he now endures it--convey
excruciating tension and pain. Yet the claustrophobic world that
she creates has at its core a disfigured yet recognizable
humanity."--"Boston Globe"
"A tour de force. Hyland illuminates this damaged soul with such a
steely, brilliant clarity that your heart breaks for him."--Helen
Garner, author of "The Spare Room"
"This Is How confirms M.J. Hyland as a true original. She has a
ferocious imagination, and an eerie way of squeezing the distance
between author, character and reader, so that the atmosphere of the
book soaks and penetrates the reader's mind. When you've been
reading Hyland, other writers seem to lack integrity; they seem
wedded to weak confabulations, whereas she aims straight for the
truth and the heart."--Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-wining author of
"Wolf Hall"
"Bleak yet moving, mercilessly dispassionate yet shot through with
kindness and wit, [This Is How] is a profound achievement . . . it
reminds us that there are some truths only fiction can
carry."--"The Guardian" (UK)
"The
"This is How, the fearlessly disturbing new novel by M.J. Hyland,
takes us inside the mind not of an innocent but of a killer . . .
Young Patrick Oxby . . . Hyland's pared-down descriptions of
Patrick's life--as it once was and as he now endures it--convey
excruciating tension and pain. Yet the claustrophobic world that
she creates has at its core a disfigured yet recognizable
humanity."--Boston Globe
"A tour de force. Hyland illuminates this damaged soul with such a
steely, brilliant clarity that your heart breaks for him."--Helen
Garner, author of The Spare Room
"This Is How confirms M.J. Hyland as a true original. She has a
ferocious imagination, and an eerie way of squeezing the distance
between author, character and reader, so that the atmosphere of the
book soaks and penetrates the reader's mind. When you've been
reading Hyland, other writers seem to lack integrity; they seem
wedded to weak confabulations, whereas she aims straight for the
truth and the heart."--Hil
"A moving and compassionate portrait of a human being who is fully
himself and yet stands for all of us, for what we fear, or fear to
hope."--"New York Times Book Review"
"[A] visceral, deeply affecting tale . . . Causality is a question
at the heart of the gripping narrative . . . This is a
compassionate, disturbing novel, tragically showing a human
learning to appreciate life only when his own has been
incarcerated." --"The Independent" (UK)
"MJ Hyland is an expert anatomist of the bruises left on a fragile
mind by a hard world . . . Every word of Hyland's narrative -
observed with the bright, deranged precision of a Richard Dadd
painting - resonates."--"The Telegraph" (UK)
"This is How, the fearlessly disturbing new novel by M.J. Hyland,
takes us inside the mind not of an innocent but of a killer . . .
Young Patrick Oxby . . . Hyland's pared-down descriptions of
Patrick's life--as it once was and as he now endures it--convey
excruciating tension and pain. Yet the claustrophobic world that
she creates has at its core a disfigured yet recognizable
humanity."--"Boston Globe"
"A tour de force. Hyland illuminates this damaged soul with such a
steely, brilliant clarity that your heart breaks for him."--Helen
Garner, author of "The Spare Room"
"This Is How confirms M.J. Hyland as a true original. She has a
ferocious imagination, and an eerie way of squeezing the distance
between author, character and reader, so that the atmosphere of the
book soaks and penetrates the reader's mind. When you've been
reading Hyland, other writers seem to lack integrity; they seem
wedded to weak confabulations, whereas she aims straight for the
truth and the heart."--Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-wining author of
"Wolf Hall"
"Bleak yet moving, mercilessly dispassionate yet shot through with
kindness and wit, [This Is How] is a profound achievement . . . it
reminds us that there are some truths only fiction can
carry."--"The Guardian" (UK)
"The
"This is How, the fearlessly disturbing new novel by M.J. Hyland,
takes us inside the mind not of an innocent but of a killer . . .
Young Patrick Oxby . . . Hyland's pared-down descriptions of
Patrick's life--as it once was and as he now endures it--convey
excruciating tension and pain. Yet the claustrophobic world that
she creates has at its core a disfigured yet recognizable
humanity."--Boston Globe
"A tour de force. Hyland illuminates this damaged soul with such a
steely, brilliant clarity that your heart breaks for him."--Helen
Garner, author of The Spare Room
"This Is How confirms M.J. Hyland as a true original. She has a
ferocious imagination, and an eerie way of squeezing the distance
between author, character and reader, so that the atmosphere of the
book soaks and penetrates the reader's mind. When you've been
reading Hyland, other writers seem to lack integrity; they seem
wedded to weak confabulations, whereas she aims straight for the
truth and the heart."--Hil
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