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		<title>The Boston globe includes This is How in its &#8216;simply the best&#8217; fiction list of 2009</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is How pops up on another &#8216;best of 2009&#8242; list.  Anna Mundow, writing in the Boston Globe describes the novel as &#8216;fearlessly disturbing&#8217;: Hyland’s pared-down descriptions of Patrick’s life &#8211; as it once was and as he now endures it &#8211; convey excruciating tension and pain. Yet the claustrophobic world that she creates has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Times names This is How as one of the best books of 2009</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times names This is How as one of the best books of 2009 in its Christmas Books Fiction Review. MJ Hyland appears alongside William Trevor and  Margaret Atwood, in the Times list, which describes This is How as &#8216; a pin-sharp examination of a young man’s troubled soul&#8217; The full list is here]]></description>
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		<title>This is How is listed as a book of the year by the New Statesman</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[John O&#8217;Connell chooses This is How as one of his best books of 2009 in the New Statesman, describing it as a &#8220;masterly disquisition on the problem of motive&#8221;. The full list can be read here]]></description>
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		<title>This is How listed in top books of the year</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[More great news &#8211; This is How is included in The London Evening Standard&#8217;s list of the best books of 2009. Colin Burrows writes of the novel: &#8220;MJ Hyland&#8217;s This is How should have been on the Booker shortlist. She writes about people whose indistinct and confused desires lead them to be judged and incarcerated. [...]]]></description>
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