Even Pretty Eyes
Jul 2026 · Canongate Books
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About this eBook
It's 1986, Sydney, Australia, the fading of a long, overheated summer. Jimmy Brailey is a young detective sergeant and he's in trouble. He's deep in debt and his mercurial wife, Trudy, wants divorce. But she'll stay on one condition. Jimmy needs 'to get his act together'. Even Pretty Eyes is the thrilling and compulsive story of a man who'll do anything to save his warped marriage - a raw and piercing account of infidelity, obsession, betrayal, and the botched kidnap of a ten-year-old child.
About the author
M.J. Hyland is the author of three multi-award-winning novels; How the Light Gets In, Carry Me Down and This Is How. She was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, longlisted for the Dublin International IMPAC prize, twice longlisted for the Orange Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and winner of both the Hawthornden Prize and Encore Prize. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Financial Times, Paris Review and the Guardian. She is co-founder and senior editor at the Hyland & Byrne Editing Firm and was a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester until 2018. @mj_hyland | mjhyland.org
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