by M. J. Hyland · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006393481
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«How the Light Gets In» is the literary novel by M. J. Hyland, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (315 pages, in English).
Louise Connor, a sixteen-year-old Australian, travels to the United States as an exchange student. Her need to be accepted clashes with her host family's pursuit of suburban perfection. The novel combines black humour with a look at adolescence and the contradictory messages of the adult world.
The work was originally published in 2003; this 2005 edition corresponds to ISBN 9780006393481.
For readers of literary fiction and coming-of-age novels, with a teenage protagonist and a portrait of family life.
Maria Joan Hyland is an ex-lawyer and the author of three novels: How the Light Gets In (2004), Carry Me Down (2006) and This Is How (2009). Hyland is a lecturer in creative writing at the Manchester Centre for New Writing. Carry Me Down was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Hawthornden Prize and the Encore Prize.
