Julie Myerson, author of The Lost Child, reviews This is How for the Financial Times. The full review is here.
Here’s an excerpt:
The descriptions of prison life are impeccable and chilling in their detail, entirely convincing in their evocation of how men rub along together when deprived of freedom, family and hope. Oxtoby’s relationships with his fellow inmates are devastatingly drawn, almost thrilling to read. I don’t think I’ve ever read such an intensely and wholeheartedly masculine voice from the pen of a woman.
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Three or four days later, however, Hyland’s white-hot prose was still smouldering in my head and I found myself intensely, almost helplessly, moved by Oxtoby and his tragedy.
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