In the Daily Telegraph, July 2011, another wonderful review of the Walker Edition of M.J Hyland’s first novel, How the Light Gets In. This edition is a special imprint for the teenage fiction market. Although not written for a teenage readership, like J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, How the Light Gets In has, [...]
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A wonderful review in the Daily Telegraph of the Walker Edition of How the Light Gets
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011Great review of How the Light Gets In, Walker Edition, reviewed in The Guardian.
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011On July 24th, MJ Hyland’s first novel, How the Light Gets In, published in a new edition by Walker Books, was reviewed in The Guardian. Read the review here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/21/teen-fiction-roundup-geraldine-brennan?INTCMP=SRCH
A female Holden, just as cynical and sensitive, but with less self-conscious verbiage
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010After the death of J.D. Salinger, the Guardian book blog takes a look at the challenges facing authors creating a young narrator. Maria’s debut novel, How the Light Gets In gets a mention, with narrator Lou being described as “a contemporary, female Holden, just as cynical and sensitive, but with less self-conscious verbiage” You can [...]
How the Light Gets In Interview with Sinead Gleeson
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009Here’s part of an old interview Maria did with Irish journalist Sinead Gleeson, around the time that How the light gets in was published in the UK and Ireland Why did you pick a teenage girl as the protagonist in this novel? I didn’t set out to write about a teenage girl, it was mostly [...]