M.J. Hyland
Born
in London, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1968
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How the Light Gets In
25 editions
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2003
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Carry Me Down
39 editions
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2006
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This Is How
23 editions
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published
2009
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The BBC National Short Story Award 2011
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2011
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Even Pretty Eyes
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2020
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Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
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8 editions
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2012
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The Best Australian Essays: A Ten-Year Collection
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2011
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Granta Bulgaria 6: отвъд болестта
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Spindles: Stories from the Science of Sleep
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Nocturnal Submissions # 4
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1995
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“It is always sad when two people have been thinking the same thing at the same moment and neither can find a way to say it out loud.”
― How the Light Gets In
― How the Light Gets In
“We remember the best fiction as though experienced, and we finish the greatest works with access to the inner-lives of the mind in a way life refuses us.”
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“I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia for things I knew I hated when they were happening, for days spent at the beach or the swimming pool with my sisters.
When I pick my memories apart, I realise my mind has merely played back the objective ingredients, the clichéd apparatus of happiness, the sun, the sound of splashing water, ice-cream on parched lips and cold fizzy drink on a hot tongue, and laugher too. My memory often peddles on the falsehood of past happiness. I should know this.”
― How the Light Gets In
When I pick my memories apart, I realise my mind has merely played back the objective ingredients, the clichéd apparatus of happiness, the sun, the sound of splashing water, ice-cream on parched lips and cold fizzy drink on a hot tongue, and laugher too. My memory often peddles on the falsehood of past happiness. I should know this.”
― How the Light Gets In
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