Anita Sethi reviews This is How in the Independent
The full review can be read here.
Here’s an extract:
As in her earlier books, Hyland beautifully and devastatingly depicts her sympathetic anti-hero’s painful craving for closeness.
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Hyland, a former lawyer, has a shrewd and convincing eye for the minutiae of the justice (and injustice) system, as Patrick is subjected to the “slow and painful” process of the law.
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Causality is a question at the heart of the gripping narrative as Hyland probes not only ‘how’ but ‘why’ - whether or not the action at the novel’s crux was “intentional”.
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