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This Is How tells the story of Patrick Oxtoby, an outsider longing to fit in. When his fiancé Sarah breaks off their engagement, Patrick leaves home and moves to a boarding house in a seaside village a few hours away. In spite of his hopes for a new and better life, Patrick struggles to make friends or make the right impression. He can't shake the feeling that his new acquaintances are conspiring against him, further fracturing his fragile personality and prompting him to take a course of action that alters the course of his life. (Publisher's blurb)
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Reading Group Guide available through the Text Publishing website.
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Dedication: For Julian Owen
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Epigraph: 'Everything unconditional belongs in pathology.' Nietzsche
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Page Turners
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— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , January no. 359 2010; (p. 27) -
[Review] This Is How
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— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 2 no. 1 2009;
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'Love Me or Leave Me' Is Blindness
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— Appears in: The Age , 19 September 2009; (p. 28) Jane Sullivan comments on some unlikeable characters in Australian and international novels. -
[Review] This Is How
2009
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— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 88 no. 9 2009; (p. 34)
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Date with Disaster
2009
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— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 16 August 2009; (p. 13)
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[Review] This Is How
2009
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 June 2009; (p. 27)
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Review of the Week
2009
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— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 28 June 2009; (p. 24)
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Criminal Minds
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 4 - 5 July 2009; (p. 20-21)
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Simple and Sympathetic Portrait of an Outsider
2009
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 July 2009; (p. 26-27)
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Daydream Believer
2009
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 313 2009; (p. 12-13)
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Telling It Like It Is
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Talent for Lying Persuasively
2009
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 July 2009; (p. 26-27) The Age , 4 July 2009; (p. 24-25) -
'Love Me or Leave Me' Is Blindness
2009
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— Appears in: The Age , 19 September 2009; (p. 28) Jane Sullivan comments on some unlikeable characters in Australian and international novels. -
Page Turners
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— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , January no. 359 2010; (p. 27) -
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First Tuesday Book Club [November 2009]
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Host Jennifer Byrne joins regular panelists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger, and guests David Marr and Di Morriseey to discuss and review the novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Australian novel, This Is How by M.J. Hyland.
Awards
- 2011 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- 2010 longlisted Women's Prize Trust Awards — Women's Prize for Fiction (UK)
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