Evie Wyld

Last night I hosted an evening of in conversation with @eviewyld at @funnyweatherbooks 🍋💛 #bookstagram #booktok #literaryfiction #books #bookshop

4 days left to get your £5 tickets! (Link in our bios) We have some remaining tickets for this event, and we’d absolutely love to see you there! This promises to be an enriching and inspiring evening with Evie Wyld, talking all things The Echoes and Evie’s writing in general. See you soon! Poster design by @jssmmoore

A V I S L E C T U R E 💫 Les Échos - Evie Wyld 𝐕𝐮 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐳 @librairiedutramway ✨ L’écriture est simple et fluide, l’histoire est franche et émotionnelle : un combo parfait pour une histoire ! Ce qui ressemble à une histoire de fantôme finie par être traitée comme celle d’un deuil et d’une remise en question. L’histoire est originale, on pense suivre un fantôme après sa mort, dans ce qui semble être une histoire surnaturelle mais finalement rien à voir (enfin si un peu quand même) ! Hannah n’a rien de l’héroïne parfaite des romans, elle a de nombreux défauts, elle est pénible même pour le.a lecteur.ice et elle en fait des choses qui la fait être détesté. Mais pourtant on l’aime bien quand même. Au delà de tout ça c’est une héroïne forte qui nous entraîne dans les tréfonds de son histoire, celle avec Max, le fantôme, comme celles qu’elle se cachait à elle même aussi. L’écrit est touchant et beau, bestial et dur à la fois. Et on en redemanderait presque ! Les sujets sont traités d’une telle façon que chacun pour s’identifier à un moment de sa vie. BILAN APRÈS LECTURE : . Euuuh Hannah je comprends mais au bout d’un moment ouvre les yeux aussi quoi . Le perso de Max me perturbe encore… . J’ai pas l’habitude de lire des livres qui parlent de ces sujets là et waouh c’était fort 🤞🏻et vachement drôle par moment en plus ptdrr My Les Échos quote 💫 « - Jétais en train de rêver, lui dis-je en l’aidant à se frictionner le dos. Je me suis réveillée et j’ai cru que tu étais mort. -Comme il serait poli de ma part de sortir du lit et d’aller mourir dans le couloir ! -C’est juste que tout était si calme. Le genre de calme qu’on ressent quand on se sait seul à la maison, tu vois? » @eviewyld @actessud #avislecture #booksta #bookstagram #littérature

our next event @eviewyld in conversation with @readsbycoral Wednesday 13th May, 7pm . . . . link in bio to book

Happy birthday to my dad who would have been 76 today I think.

Very late Substack post alert!

I am delighted to announce that on 13th May, I will be hosting an evening of in conversation with Evie Wyld, one of my favourite authors of all time! We will be discussing Evie’s latest book, The Echoes, her writing processes in general, and much more. There will also be the opportunity for audience members to ask Evie their own questions and get their copies signed! Evie won the Miles Franklin Award and The Stella Prize for fiction in Australia, and is the recipient of The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, a Betty Trask Award, the European Union Prize, the Jerwood Fiction Prize and the Encore Award. Her novels have been longlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Prize and shortlisted for the IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award, The Sky Arts Breakthrough Award and the James Tait Black Prize. In 2013 she was included in Granta’s once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Please come and join us at the wonderful Funny Weather Books and Coffee on Hampstead Heath, for an evening with Evie Wyld. This is not one to miss!! Poster design by the very talented @jssmmoore TICKETS IN MY BIO!

Just turned a page in my notebook to find my son has left me this SWEET drawing of a Faceless One.

Longlist spotlight: The Echoes by Evie Wyld 📚 ✨ About the Book The Echoes by Evie Wyld tells the story of Max, who never believed in an afterlife until he dies. Now a reluctant ghost, he observes his girlfriend Hannah and begins to notice the parts of her life he never understood. At the same time, Hannah struggles with the secrets she left behind in Australia, and the past keeps resurfacing, threatening the future she hoped to have with Max. ✨ About the Author @eviewyld Evie Wyld is the award-winning author of four novels and one graphic novel. She has won the Betty Trask Award, Miles Franklin Award, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Encore Award, Jerwood Fiction Prize and the European Union Prize. In 2013 she was included in Granta’s once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and helps run an independent bookshop in Peckham called Review. The Echoes was nominated by Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge (Belgium) and published by Vintage. @bibbrugge #DublinLiteraryAward #DLA26 #DublinLitAward

Usual sort of horrifying WBD content.

I loved this book- slow burn horror, restrained writing, tension the whole way through, and very smelly. 🪰 Putrefying in the best way.

This is excellent- reminds me of Zoë Heller, such clever and restrained story telling, dark and tense and lovely. @phillymalicka 💪🏻