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This Is How

M.J. Hyland

When his fiancee breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves to a boarding house in a seaside town. But in spite of his hopes and determination to build a better life, nothing goes to plan. A mesmerising and...

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How the Light Gets In: Popular Penguins

How the Light Gets In: Popular Penguins

M.J. Hyland

Lou Connor wants to escape her life of poverty, so she travels from Sydney to the US as an exchange student. But her host-family, the Hardings - who live in a prefabricated mansion in a nameless Chicago suburb - are in suffocating...

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How the Light Gets In

How the Light Gets In

M.J. Hyland

Louise O'Connor is a troubled sixteen-year-old who leaves Sydney as an exchange student for mid-west USA. She hopes to create the perfect life she imagines only money can provide. But, the Hardings are as unpredictable as they are...

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