This is How pops up on another ‘best of 2009′ list. Anna Mundow, writing in the Boston Globe describes the novel as ‘fearlessly disturbing’:
Hyland’s pared-down descriptions of Patrick’s life – as it once was and as he now endures it – convey excruciating tension and pain. Yet the claustrophobic world that she creates has at [...]
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The Boston globe includes This is How in its ’simply the best’ fiction list of 2009
Sunday, December 6th, 2009The Times names This is How as one of the best books of 2009
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009The 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 ‘ a pin-sharp examination of a young man’s troubled soul’
The full list is here
Financial Times chooses This Is How amongst its books of the year
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009More good news – Another major newspaper has picked This is How in its end of year roundup. The Financial Times has chosen This is How as one of its best novels of 2009.
Financial Times fiction reviewer Angel Gurría-Quintana writes:
“Hyland’s exquisitely crafted prose makes readers care for this emotionally stunted protagonist.”
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This is How listed in top books of the year
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009More great news – This is How is included in The London Evening Standard’s list of the best books of 2009.
Colin Burrows writes of the novel:
“MJ Hyland’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. In [...]