How The Light Gets In
| Publisher | Canongate |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | United States |
| Copyright | 2003 |
| This Edition Published | 2004 |
| Pages / Font | 329 pages |
| UPC | 9781841955483 |
| ISBN 13 | 978-1-84195-548-3 |
| ISBN 10 | 1-84195-548-5 |
| Notes | Lou Connor, a gifted, unhappy 16-year-old, is desperate to escape her life of poverty in Sydney. And when she is offered a place in an exchange student program at an American college, it seems as if her dreams are going to be fulfilled. Her host family, the Hardings, have a large and beautiful house in Illinois and couldn’t be more welcoming. Everything is perfect. Until she starts feeling suffocated by the repressive atmosphere of the Harding’s suburban mansion… How the Light Gets In is an acutely observed story of adolescence and one that evokes American Beauty in its dissection of ingrained prejudices and middle-class hypocrisy. And in Lou Connor, M.J. Hyland has created a larger-than-life protagonist who mesmerizes the reader with her vivacity and vulnerability, from hopeful beginning to unexpected, haunting end. |
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