Evie Wyld
The prize-winning literary fiction author of All the Birds, Singing and The Echoes, winner of the Miles Franklin Award, the Stella Prize for Fiction, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and the Betty Trask Award.
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Evie Wyld is the author of The Echoes, The Bass Rock, All the Birds, Singing, and After the Fire, a Still Small Voice as well as the graphic novel Everything is Teeth. She has won the Miles Franklin Award and the Stella Prize for fiction in Australia. She is also the recipient of Tte John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, a Betty Trask Award, the European Union Prize for Literature, the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, and the Encore Award. In 2013, she was included in Granta’s once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists.
Her novels have been longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Prize, and shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Sky Arts Breakthrough Award, and the James Tait Black Prize. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an honorary fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Her debut, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Betty Trask Award. It was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers, the Commonwealth Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
All the Birds, Singing won the Miles Franklin Award, Encore Award, and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. It was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize, James Tait Black Prize, and the Sky Arts/Times Breakthrough Award, and longlisted for the Stella Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
The Bass Rock was shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Barbara Jefferis Award and won the Stella Prize.
Evie’s books have been translated into over 20 languages, with options for film and television. She has written for BBC Radio 4 and runs Review, an independent bookshop in Peckham, south London. She studied Creative Writing (BA) at Bath Spa University and as an MA at Goldsmiths.
Evie’s Genres
- Historical Fiction
- Literary Fiction
The Echoes
Max didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he is still here, he watches his girlfriend, Hannah, lost in grief in the apartment they shared, and begins to realize how much of her life was invisible to him.
In the weeks and months before Max’s death, Hannah was haunted by the secrets she left Australia to escape. A relationship with Max seemed to offer the potential of a fresh new chapter, but the past refused to stay hidden. It found expression in the untold stories of the people she grew up with, and the events that broke her family apart and led her to Max.
Both a celebration and an autopsy of a relationship, and spanning multiple generations, The Echoes is a novel about love and grief, motherhood and sisterhood, secrets and who has the right to reveal them—what of our past can be cast away and what is fixed forever, echoing down through the years.
After the Fire, A Still Small Voice
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 neighbors 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.
All the Birds, Singing
Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It’s just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. Which is how she wanted it to be.
But something is coming for the sheep—every few nights it picks one off, leaves it in rags. It could be anything. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, rumors of an obscure, formidable beast.
And there is Jake’s unknown past, perhaps breaking into the present, a story hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, in a landscape of different color and sound, a story held in the scars that stripe her back.
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