Summer Reads 2011: About Evie Wyld
Synopsis:
Frank and Leon are two men from different times, discovering that sometimes all you learn from your parents’ mistakes is how to make different ones of your own.
Frank is trying to escape his troubled past by running away to his family’s beach shack. As he struggles to make friends with his neighbours and their precocious young daughter Sal, he discovers the community has fresh wounds of its own. A girl is missing, and when Sal too disappears, suspicion falls on Frank.
Decades earlier, Leon tries to hold together his family’s cake shop as their suburban life crumbles in the aftermath of the Korean War. When war breaks out again, Leon must go from sculpting sugar figurines to killing young men as a conscript in the Vietnam War.
Selected Quotes:
“Superb” The Times
“This adroit examination of loss, lostness and trauma is the beginning of great things” Independent
“Just sometimes, a book is so complete, so compelling and potent, that you are fearful of breaking its hold. This is one.” Daily Mail
“A young writer with talent to burn.” -- Independent, Emma Hagestadt
Author Biography
Evie Wyld is a graduate of Goldsmiths’ MA in Creative Writing. In 2009 her first novel After the Fire a Still Small Voice was published and won the John Llewllyn Rhys prize, and a Betty Trask award. In 2010 she was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers. In 2011 she was listed by The Culture Show as one of their Best New British Writers.
Other books by Evie Wyld
Sea Stories, National Maritime Museum, 2007
