In 2014, the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize worked with the Regional Literature Development Agencies to find reading groups across the UK to read the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winning titles. All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld was read by the Peninsula Arts Reading Group from Plymouth and below are reviews from its reading group members. …
Posted on 30th July 2014
Posted on 19th June 2014
All the Birds, Singing
“Brooding and brilliant All the Birds, Singing, is a big, deep and accomplished novel that I would press into the hands of any lover of words, and stories. She excels at creating character, a sense of place and a thrilling tension, infusing every page with a depth of feeling along the way. For a novelist as…
Posted on 19th June 2014
All the Birds, Singing
There’s a heat that permeates Evie Wyld’s truly wonderful second novel: a beating pulse of brutality that accompanies the story of Jake Whyte, a woman living alone on a sparsely populated British island. Upon reading the first sentence—“Another sheep, mangled and bled out, her innards not yet crusting and the vapours rising from her like a steamed…
Posted on 25th February 2012
Literary Dinners launched
Fiction Uncovered is all about celebrating and discovering writing talent – and what better place to do so than over a scrumptious meal? That’s the mouthwatering concept behind Literary Dinners, whose founders aim to satiate hunger of body and brain. From March they’ll be serving up a menu of gourmet delights in gorgeous settings, all…
Posted on 15th November 2010
Fiction Uncovered by… Evie Wyld, novelist
I first read Afsaneh Knight’s Slaughterhouse Heart about a year ago and I still find myself waking up to it in the night. It seems to me a book about understanding cruelty, where it comes from and who absorbs it. The writing is superb and deserves to be held up. I got lost finishing it…
