There’s a nice video piece in The Guardian where Maria reads from This is How, and is interviewed. The video can be seen here http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2009/aug/21/mj-hyland-this-is-how
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Video of Maria reading from This is How
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009This is How makes NY Times Editors’ Choice list
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009Great news – This is How is one of the books on this week’s Editors’ Choice list at the New York Times. This follows on from the great review This is How got last week in the same newspaper. “She makes it look so simple, with her words of one syllable, with a style almost [...]
‘thrilling, moving and compassionate’ – The New York Times reviews This is How
Monday, August 17th, 2009There’s a wonderful review of This is How in the New York Times, written by novelist, poet, and literary critic Erica Wagner The full review can be read here Here’s an extract: She makes it look so simple, with her words of one syllable, with a style almost entirely devoid of affect; but there is [...]
This is How longlisted for the Guardian ‘not the booker’ prize
Friday, August 14th, 2009This is How has been nominated for the Guardian book blog’s ‘Not the Booker Prize’ Prize! The longlist of 46 titles was compiled from books nominated by readers of the newspaper. If you’ve read and enjoyed This is How and want to vote for it, you can do so here: The Guardian ‘Not the Booker [...]
The Globe and Mail review This is How
Monday, August 10th, 2009Novelist Kate Pullinger reviews This is How in Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. The full review is here. Here’s an extract: This is How, by Booker Prize-nominated British writer M. J. Hyland, is a novel of quiet and unexpected power. It takes a tired set of genre clichés and wakes us up by breathing new [...]
Interview in the Boston Globe
Monday, August 10th, 2009Maria is interviewed in The Boston Globe, which describes This is How as ‘extraordinary’. The full interview is online here. Here’s a quick extract: Q: How did Patrick Oxtby arrive in your head? A: I read Tony Parker’s book “Life After Life: Interviews with Twelve Murderers’’ and I was struck by the case of a [...]
This is How reviewed by the Daily Mail
Friday, July 24th, 2009The Daily Mail has a short positive review of This is How. You can read it online here Extract: The description of life on the inside is as remarkable for its authenticity as it is for the development of Patrick’s character. Alongside the relentless hopelessness, the struggle for existence itself and the constant undertow of [...]
Geordie Williamson reviews This is How
Friday, July 24th, 2009Leading Australian book critic Geordie Williamson has reviewed This is How in the newspaper The Australian. The full review is here. Here’s an extract: Hyland’s writing, which has only increased in strangeness with each new book, emerges from a shifting of co-ordinates between cold-eyed clinician and artist’s empathetic heart. Her characters are constructed from the [...]
This is How reviewed in The New Statesman
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009John O’Connell reviews This is How in The New Statesman The full review is online here. Here’s an extract: In his desire to force a face-off between the Two Cultures, McEwan often seems to be writing himself out of a job. M J Hyland, in her subtle and richly exploratory new novel, adopts the opposite [...]
This is How reviewed in The Telegraph
Monday, July 20th, 2009The Telegraph has reviewed This is How. The full review is available online here. An extract: MJ Hyland is an expert anatomist of the bruises left on a fragile mind by a hard world. [...] Hyland mentions Albert Camus as one of her literary inspirations, and Oxtoby shares with Camus’s Meursault – and with a [...]