Five books that changed Evie Wyld

Evie Wyld grew up in Australia and London, where she currently lives. She received an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, and was featured as one of Granta’s New Voices in May 2008.

She has written two novels, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice and All the Birds, Singing.

Wyld shared with the Sydney Morning Herald a list of five books that changed her. One title on the list:

The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan

One of the first adult novels I read as a kid - it seemed to me to be about my parents getting murdered in Venice. The feel of the story is still with me 20 years later. It was the first time I'd read a book that didn't tie up its endings neatly and in a way that you felt safe after reading.

Read about another book on the list.

The Comfort of Strangers is on Kate Kellaway's top ten list of fictional holidays and John Mullan's list of ten of the best visits to Venice in literature.

Evie Wyld runs a bookshop in Peckham, London, called Review.

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--Marshal Zeringue