Just sometimes, a book is so complete, so compelling and potent, that you are fearful of breaking its hold. This is one: a novel about (as its title might suggest) devastating damage and the humanity that, almost unfathomably, remains...with awesome skill and whiplash wit, Evie Wyld knits together past and present, with tension building all the time. In Peter Carey and Tim Winton, Australia has produced two if the finest storytellers working today. On this evidence, Wyld can match them both
Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail

Just sometimes, a book is so complete, so compelling and potent, that you are fearful of breaking its hold. This is one: a novel about (as its title might suggest) devastating damage and the humanity that, almost unfathomably, remains...with awesome skill and whiplash wit, Evie Wyld knits together past and present, with tension building all the time. In Peter Carey and Tim Winton, Australia has produced two if the finest storytellers working today. On this evidence, Wyld can match them both
Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail

Just sometimes, a book is so complete, so compelling and potent, that you are fearful of breaking its hold. This is one: a novel about (as its title might suggest) devastating damage and the humanity that, almost unfathomably, remains...with awesome skill and whiplash wit, Evie Wyld knits together past and present, with tension building all the time. In Peter Carey and Tim Winton, Australia has produced two if the finest storytellers working today. On this evidence, Wyld can match them both
Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail

Ravishingly atmospheric and wisely compassionate, this somber, ambitious first novel attempts to net more sorrows, secrets, and horrors than it can hold, but there’s no doubt that Wyld is a writer of immense abilities and depth
Booklist

Wyld sympathetically explores the blight of war and violence on three generations of a working-class Australian family
Gabriel Byng, New Statesman

Wyld sympathetically explores the blight of war and violence on three generations of a working-class Australian family
Gabriel Byng, New Statesman

Wyld’s first novel is a remarkable achievement: a potent and compelling exploration of the connections between father and son, and the legacy of violence and repression
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Wyld’s first novel is a remarkable achievement: a potent and compelling exploration of the connections between father and son, and the legacy of violence and repression
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At times startling, Wyld’s book is ruminative and dramatic, with deep reserves of empathy colored by masculine rage and repression
Publisher's Weekly

A terrifically self-assured debut.
Guardian

Superb first novel
Kate Saunders, The Times

Superb first novel
Kate Saunders, The Times

Wyld has a feel for beauty and for the ugliness of inherited pain
The New Yorker

Wyld has a feel for beauty and for the ugliness of inherited pain
The New Yorker

In Peter Carey and Tim Winton, Australia has produced two of the finest storytellers working today. On this evidence, Wyld can match them both.
Daily Mail

Wyld has a feel both for beauty and for the ugliness of inherited pain.
The New Yorker

Filled with light and tragedy. This is a sad novel and lovely novel from a talented new writer
Francesca Segal, The Observer

Filled with light and tragedy. This is a sad novel and lovely novel from a talented new writer
Francesca Segal, The Observer

It’s a cauterising, cleansing tale, told with muscular writing
Catherine Taylor, The Guardian

It’s a cauterising, cleansing tale, told with muscular writing
Catherine Taylor, The Guardian

A searing study of the way war-induced damage passes from fathers to sons.
Times Literary Supplement

A stunning work from a brilliant new voice
Esquire

A stunning work from a brilliant new voice
Esquire

This adroit examination of loss, lostness and trauma is the beginning of great things
Lee Rourke, Independent

This adroit examination of loss, lostness and trauma is the beginning of great things
Lee Rourke, Independent

This jewel of a book
Grazia, Lauren Laverne

This jewel of a book
Grazia, Lauren Laverne

Written in a pitchy, crystal-sharp prose, this is a compelling read that uses the Australian landscape to mirror its characters’ equally unforgiving emotional terrain
Adrian Turpin, Financial Times

Written in a pitchy, crystal-sharp prose, this is a compelling read that uses the Australian landscape to mirror its characters’ equally unforgiving emotional terrain
Adrian Turpin, Financial Times

Manages to create a confidently uneasy and gripping atmosphere
Elle

Manages to create a confidently uneasy and gripping atmosphere
Elle

Its richness of prose is evocative
Historical Novels Review

Its richness of prose is evocative
Historical Novels Review

It is every inch the assured and stunning debut that everyone suggests
Dovegreyreader.com

It is every inch the assured and stunning debut that everyone suggests
Dovegreyreader.com

Wyld is a languorous writer with great skill in characterisation…will delight
Philip Womack, Sunday Telegraph

Wyld is a languorous writer with great skill in characterisation…will delight
Philip Womack, Sunday Telegraph

This is a young writer with talent to burn
Emma Hagestadt, Independent

This is a young writer with talent to burn
Emma Hagestadt, Independent

Told with quiet, characterful poise, the noel succeeds in evoking not only Australia’s epic geographical landscape, but its literary terrain too summoning echoes of some of that country’s finest writers,
Hephzibah Anderson, Daily Mail

Told with quiet, characterful poise, the noel succeeds in evoking not only Australia’s epic geographical landscape, but its literary terrain too summoning echoes of some of that country’s finest writers,
Hephzibah Anderson, Daily Mail

This is a highly accomplished first novel. Evie Wyld is not a show off writer. She has a clean, clear prose style which is exactly right in the service if her story, and the best ear for dialogue in a long time.
Susan Hill, The Lady

This is a highly accomplished first novel. Evie Wyld is not a show off writer. She has a clean, clear prose style which is exactly right in the service if her story, and the best ear for dialogue in a long time.
Susan Hill, The Lady

Wyld’s debut novel dissects the misery that seeps inexorably from one generation to the next
Anna Scott, Guardian

Wyld’s debut novel dissects the misery that seeps inexorably from one generation to the next
Anna Scott, Guardian

Wyld can write very well, in a vivid descriptive style reminiscent of Tim Winton’s.
Christina Koning, The Times

Wyld can write very well, in a vivid descriptive style reminiscent of Tim Winton’s.
Christina Koning, The Times

Wyld’s superb skills at portraying a hot, dusty landscape and her psychological insight will pull you inexorably in.
Louise Doughty, Psychologies

Wyld’s superb skills at portraying a hot, dusty landscape and her psychological insight will pull you inexorably in.
Louise Doughty, Psychologies

Superb assured first novel about fathers and sons. Pitch-perfect prose
Woman & Home

Superb assured first novel about fathers and sons. Pitch-perfect prose
Woman & Home

A very impressive first novel. Wise and wry, it uses its Australian bush setting to great effect, Wyld’s protagonists fleeing there from wars, both literal and familial. She writes great characters and makes you love them as she nails them.
Rachel Seiffert, Sunday Herald, Christmas round up

A very impressive first novel. Wise and wry, it uses its Australian bush setting to great effect, Wyld’s protagonists fleeing there from wars, both literal and familial. She writes great characters and makes you love them as she nails them.
Rachel Seiffert, Sunday Herald, Christmas round up