This is How
M.J. Hyland

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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

was born in London in 1968. She studied Law and English at the University of Melbourne. Her first novel, How the Light Gets In, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and her second, Carry Me Down, won the Encore Award and the Hawthornden Award, and was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and Commonwealth Writer’ Prize. Hyland lives in Manchester, where she is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester.

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