MARIA (MJ) HYLAND'S extraordinary second novel, Carry Me Down, was published in , two years after her debut, How the Light Gets In (Canongate, ). The critical reception for Carry Me Down was almost universally positive, and the novel was shortlisted for both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the prestigious Man Booker www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 9 mins. · MJ Hyland tells the story of a boy who thinks he has special powers in her enthralling second novel, Carry Me Down, says Geraldine Bedell Buy Carry Me Down at the Guardian bookshop Geraldine BedellAuthor: Geraldine Bedell. M.J. Hyland is an ex-lawyer and the author of three multi-award-winning novels: How the Light Gets In, Carry Me Down, and This is How. Carry Me Down was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won both the Hawthornden Prize and The Encore Prize. Hyland is also a lecturer in Creative Writing in The Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester where she runs fiction workshops, alongside Cited by: 6.
The opening scene of Carry Me Down came to M. J. Hyland in a dream. It is set in a kitchen, "on a dark Sunday in winter", in rural Ireland during the early s. The year-old narrator, John. CARRY ME DOWN. by M.J. Hyland. BUY NOW FROM. AMAZON BARNES NOBLE GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: Email Address Subscribe Tweet. KIRKUS REVIEW. A child-man is ripped by forces beyond his control. Set in the Irish countryside circa , Hyland's narrative begins as year-old narrator and only child John Egan, home from school for the. M.J Hyland is an ex-lawyer and the author of three multi-award-winning novels: How the Light Gets In (), Carry Me Down () and This is How (). Carry Me Down () was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won both the Hawthornden Prize and the Encore Prize.
Carry Me Down is a restrained, emotionally taut, and sometimes outrageously funny portrait whose drama drives toward, but narrowly averts, an unthinkable disaster. Read more Read less © M.J. Hyland (P) Blackstone Audiobooks. Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland pp, Canongate, £ John Egan is an unusual year-old. When we join his story his voice has already broken and he is exceptionally tall for his age. Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland. I was referred to M.J. Hyland, an author I hadn't previously heard of, by the algorithm at www.doorway.ru I found this book quite disturbing when I read it, so much so that I felt I needed some distance before I could articulate my thoughts about it in a review.
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