How the Light Gets In

M. J. Hyland

earliest edition we have, 2003 HarperCollins Publishers, 2004 hardcover

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 Illino...

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Editions we hold

How The Light Gets In edition · 2011 · Walker & Company · 9781406334494
How the Light Gets In MJ Hyland edition · 2011 · Hachette Books Ireland · 9781444722123
How the Light Gets In edition · 2010 · Penguin Random House · 336 pages · 9780143204770
How the Light Gets In edition · 2009 · Canongate Books · 9781847676290
How the Light Gets In edition · 2007 · Canongate Books · 9780802197764
How the Light Gets In paperback · 2005 · Canongate Books Ltd · 336 pages · 9781841956114
How The Light Gets In hardcover · 2004 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780002005777
How the Light Gets In paperback · 2004 · Canongate U.S. · 320 pages · 9781841955483
How the Light Gets in paperback · 2004 · Canongate Books Ltd · 329 pages · 9781841954912
How the Light Gets In edition · 2003 · Penguin Random House · 324 pages · 9780143001287

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