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After the Fire, a Still Small Voice (Hardcover)

by Evie Wyld (Author)
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Product details

  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd (13 Aug 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0224088874
  • ISBN-13: 978-0224088879
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.4 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,329 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Review

`superb first novel' -- The Times, Kate Saunders

`...filled with light and tragedy. This is a sad novel and lovely novel from a talented new writer' --The Observer

A stunning work from a brilliant new voice' --Esquire

'this adroit examination of loss, lostness and trauma is the beginning of great things'. --The Independent

" ...pitchy, crystal-sharp prose, a compelling read that uses the Australian landscape to mirror its characters' equally unforgiving emotional terrain" -- FT

`this adroit examination of loss, lostness and trauma is the beginning of great things' --The Independent

'This jewel of a book.' --Grazia

"... pitchy, crystal-sharp prose... a compelling read that uses the Australian landscape to mirror its characters' equally unforgiving emotional terrain" --FT

"Manages to create a confidently uneasy and gripping atmosphere"
--Elle


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It's not just about generations of men affected by war. It's about men everywhere. For any man who's ever felt like an emotional fence post, this is the book for you. I enjoyed it enormously. - Giles Foden

'Intense. Wyld is an absolutely brilliant prose writer. The first chapter is so acute, poetic but not self-consciously literary and all in service to the characters. A fantastically-written novel. But gripping, it works almost as a mystery. Incredibly realistic about men and the trouble they have expressing themselves. - Boyd Hilton, BBC Radio 5 Live

Splendid. There's a point where you realise if you're confident in a writer. For me it was page five. From that point on, I knew I would go anywhere with this author. The book has an incredible, quiet confidence in its own prose. It never raises its voice. I just ate it up. There were two brilliant Australian novels I read this year by Tim Winton and Steve Toltz, which got a huge amount of attention. This is equally good. A masterful piece of writing.- Joel Morris, BBC Radio 5 live

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Gripping and evocative, 7 Sep 2009
By A. Foster (Bradford, W..Yorks) - See all my reviews
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Having just got back from a year in Australia I really enjoyed the depiction of New South Wales, and there is much more to this book than just the setting. The Larkin maxim and other issues are explored throughout but the author's light touch leaves you to draw your own conclusions. The historical aspects are well researched and give the book added depth. The characterisation is superb, the plotting strong and I don't think it'll be too long before I re-read it - maybe on the plane back out to Sydney.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Proper Book, 9 Sep 2009
I read this book after seeing a couple of very good reviews for it. If you're looking for a beautifully written story about the things people can't say to each other, then this is for you. Brilliant descriptions of the Australian landscape throughout and Frank and Leon are very well drawn characters. Haven't enjoyed a book so much in ages.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Quick! before everyone else reads this anyway..., 3 Oct 2009
Recommending this book is a bit like spilling the beans on a tucked-away holiday paradise. You want the world to know about it, yet part of you would like it to remain the secret of a handful of lucky initiates.
It's hard to know which aspect of Evie Wyld's novel is the most remarkable. Its descriptions of Australia's weird and wonderful landscapes? The fact that despite a major part of the author's formative years being spent in London, this is an utterly Australian novel? That it's a first novel, pitch-perfect in tone, acute in its understanding of the male psyche, that grips from start to finish?
In the end, maybe it's the skilful storytelling, laid out with purpose, pace and poetry. In alternating chapters, we learn of the key events in the lives of Leon and, decades later, Frank. Violence, though it only sporadically arrives, is never far below the surface: the violence of war, of domestic tensions and personal demons, and the difficulty men often have in expressing themselves honestly or even at all.
As the implications of Leon and Frank's lives converge, will history repeat itself or will they find a way of adapting to external horrors and inward heartache?
A stunning novel, in a fine Aussie tradition that includes Tim Winton and Janette Turner Hospital (read 'Oyster'), that I hope receives the recognition it richly deserves.
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