A powerful debut from an Australian novelist that features one of the most likeable but contrary figures you are likely to meet in contemporary fiction.
Lou Connor, a gifted, unhappy sixteen-year-old, is desperate to escape her life of poverty in Sydney. When she is offered an exchange student placement at a school in America it seems as if her dreams will be fulfilled.
Her host family has a beautiful house in Illinois and couldn’t be more welcoming . . . until she starts to be distubed by the suffocating and repressed atmosphere of their suburban mansion and things begin to go terribly wrong.
How the Light Gets In is an acutely observed story of adolescence, reminiscent of American Beauty in its dissection of engrained prejudices and middle-class hypocrisy. In Lou Connor, Hyland has created a larger-than-life protagonist who mesmerises the reader with her vivacity and vulnerability, from hopeful beginning to unexpected, haunting end.
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M.J. Hyland is the author of three multi-award-winning novels; How the Light Gets In, Carry Me Down and This Is How. She was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, longlisted for the Dublin International IMPAC prize, twice longlisted for the Orange Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and winner of both the Hawthornden Prize and Encore Prize. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Financial Times, Paris Review and the Guardian. She is co-founder and senior editor at the Hyland & Byrne Editing Firm and was a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester until 2018.@mj_hyland | mjhyland.org
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