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How the Light Gets In
M.J. Hyland
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Description for How the Light Gets In
Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Lou Connor, a gifted, unhappy sixteen-year-old, is desperate to escape her life of poverty in Sydney. And when she is offered a place as an exchange student at a college in America it seems as if her dreams are going to be fulfilled. Her host-family, the Hardings, has a large and beautiful house in Illinois and couldn't be more welcoming. Everything is perfect. Until she starts having to live in the suffocating and repressed atmosphere of the Harding's suburban mansion and things start to go terribly wrong. How the Light Gets In is an acutely observed ... Read more
Lou Connor, a gifted, unhappy sixteen-year-old, is desperate to escape her life of poverty in Sydney. And when she is offered a place as an exchange student at a college in America it seems as if her dreams are going to be fulfilled. Her host-family, the Hardings, has a large and beautiful house in Illinois and couldn't be more welcoming. Everything is perfect. Until she starts having to live in the suffocating and repressed atmosphere of the Harding's suburban mansion and things start to go terribly wrong. How the Light Gets In is an acutely observed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Ex Libris
Yes
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841954912
SKU
KRA0010586
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About M.J. Hyland
M.J.HYLAND was born in London in 1968 to Irish parents, and spent her early childhood in Dublin. She now lives and works in Melbourne. Her short stories have been published in Australia, the USA and Ireland and she also edited the literary magazine, Nocturnal Submissions, for a number of years. She is currently working on a second ... Read more
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