M.J. Hyland Books in Order

Gifted teenager Lou Connor leaves poverty in Sydney for an exchange placement with an affluent American family. What first appears to be an escape becomes suffocating, as her defiance collides with the expectations of her new household.

In 1970s Ireland, twelve-year-old John Egan believes he can detect lies and dreams of recognition. As family life unravels, his insistence on truth and growing emotional instability deepen the difficulties separating him from those around him.

Lonely and unsettled, Patrick begins an independent life and seems close to finding happiness. A sudden act of violence destroys that possibility, leaving him to confront confinement, guilt, and the question of whether one deed defines a person.

In Sydney in 1986, young detective sergeant Jimmy Brailey is deeply in debt and facing divorce. Desperate to keep his wife Trudy, he becomes entangled in obsession, betrayal and the botched kidnapping of a ten-year-old child.