Carry Me Down: Text Classics

‘Carry Me Down is uncompromising, unputdownable and done with expert lightness. It’s a work of discreet brilliance. M.J. Hyland is a truly gifted writer.’ * Ali Smith *
‘This is writing of the highest order.’ * J. M. Coetzee *
‘Hyland’s talent and her power of realisation are manifest and moving…a novel that will command the world’s attention.’ * Monthly *
‘Hyland writes in unadorned, clear prose, evoking period, place and setting with intense clarity and a lovely, restrained lyricism.’ * Australian *
‘Carry Me Down is a heart-rendingly domestic work full of compassion for the most ordinary of our human frailties.’ * Age *
‘Hyland’s disquieting novel is feverishly alert to childhood’s bewilderments and sensitively articulates the strange osmosis between the mundane and the otherworldly.’ * Sunday Times *

M.J. Hyland (Author)

M.J. Hyland was born in London to Irish parents in 1968 and spent her early childhood in Dublin. She studied English and Law at the University of Melbourne and worked as a lawyer for several years.

How the Light Gets In, her first novel, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Age Book of the Year Award, and was the joint winner of the Best Young Australian Novelist Award.

Her second novel, Carry Me Down, was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and won both the Hawthornden and Encore Prizes.

Her most recent novel is This is How.

Hyland lives in Manchester, England, where she teaches in the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester.

J. M. Coetzee (Introducer)

J. M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and Times of Michael K, The Master of Petersburg, Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year. He lives in Adelaide.

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