How the Light Gets In
M.J. Hyland
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Description for How the Light Gets In
Paperback. Lou Connor, a gifted, unhappy sixteen-year-old, is desperate to escape her life of poverty in Sydney. When she is offered an exchange student placement at a school in America it seems as if her dreams will be fulfilled. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 252. Used paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
A powerful debut from an Australian novelist that features one of the most likeable but contrary figures you are likely to meet in contemporary fiction.
Lou Connor, a gifted, unhappy sixteen-year-old, is desperate to escape her life of poverty in Sydney. When she is offered an exchange student placement at a school in America it seems as if her dreams will be fulfilled.
Her host family has a beautiful house in Illinois and couldn't be more welcoming . . . until she starts to be distubed by the suffocating and repressed atmosphere of their suburban mansion and ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841956114
SKU
KRF0040758
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Ref
99-1
About M.J. Hyland
M.J Hyland is an ex-lawyer and the author of three multi-award-winning novels: How the Light Gets In (2004), Carry Me Down (2006) and This is How (2009). Carry Me Down (2006) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won both the Hawthornden Prize and the Encore Award. M.J Hyland has twice been longlisted for the Orange Prize (2004 and ... Read more
Reviews for How the Light Gets In
The best book I read this year - brilliantly written.
Mark Cousins
Scotland on Sunday
Heartbreaking and compelling.
Observer
[Hyland] brings the long-forgotten teenage sensation of drowning in life's uncomprehended complexities horribly alive.
The Times
Hyland's biting debut novel tells of ... Read more
Mark Cousins
Scotland on Sunday
Heartbreaking and compelling.
Observer
[Hyland] brings the long-forgotten teenage sensation of drowning in life's uncomprehended complexities horribly alive.
The Times
Hyland's biting debut novel tells of ... Read more