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A short story by Evie Wyld from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘Behind The Mountain’, an English wife struggles with the loneliness of a new life in Canada and finds herself drawn to the town’s outsider.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë’s game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.

'Outstandingly weird and memorable' GUARDIAN'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies… Featuring stories from Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enríquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart, Ainslie Hogarth, Robert Lautner, Adorah Nworah, Irenosen Okojie, Lucy Rose, Lionel Shriver, James Smythe, Lavie Tidhar, Francine Toon, Evie Wyld and Louisa Young. These stories from eighteen master storytellers will curdle your blood, haunt your dreams and redefine terror.From a hungry young woman who is not what she seems, to a boy who has taken his mother's advice a little too seriously; from disfigured girls willing to pay any price to fit in, to an immigrant who cannot escape his tormentor in his new home country; from a new home with a sinister secret, to the discovery that a long-dead parent’s corpse is perfectly preserved decades later; this collection plumbs the depths of the psyche and dredges up some very modern horrors. READERS ARE OBSESSED 'Stunning' 'Well-plotted and horrifying' 'Visceral, creepy, gory… stays in your head long after reading them' 'It's so satisfying to turn to the next story in an anthology like this and be pretty confident it's going to be a banger… bravo' 'Spine-tingling… I was gripped and it kept me up at night as I just wanted to read one more story' 'Often unusual, always unique… a wildly eclectic cornucopia of horror'

'Outstandingly weird and memorable' GUARDIAN'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies… Featuring stories from Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enríquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart, Ainslie Hogarth, Robert Lautner, Adorah Nworah, Irenosen Okojie, Lucy Rose, Lionel Shriver, James Smythe, Lavie Tidhar, Francine Toon, Evie Wyld and Louisa Young. These stories from eighteen master storytellers will curdle your blood, haunt your dreams and redefine terror.From a hungry young woman who is not what she seems, to a boy who has taken his mother's advice a little too seriously; from disfigured girls willing to pay any price to fit in, to an immigrant who cannot escape his tormentor in his new home country; from a new home with a sinister secret, to the discovery that a long-dead parent’s corpse is perfectly preserved decades later; this collection plumbs the depths of the psyche and dredges up some very modern horrors. READERS ARE OBSESSED 'Stunning' 'Well-plotted and horrifying' 'Visceral, creepy, gory… stays in your head long after reading them' 'It's so satisfying to turn to the next story in an anthology like this and be pretty confident it's going to be a banger… bravo' 'Spine-tingling… I was gripped and it kept me up at night as I just wanted to read one more story' 'Often unusual, always unique… a wildly eclectic cornucopia of horror'

'Outstandingly weird and memorable' GUARDIAN'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies… Featuring stories from Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enríquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart, Ainslie Hogarth, Robert Lautner, Adorah Nworah, Irenosen Okojie, Lucy Rose, Lionel Shriver, James Smythe, Lavie Tidhar, Francine Toon, Evie Wyld and Louisa Young. These stories from eighteen master storytellers will curdle your blood, haunt your dreams and redefine terror.From a hungry young woman who is not what she seems, to a boy who has taken his mother's advice a little too seriously; from disfigured girls willing to pay any price to fit in, to an immigrant who cannot escape his tormentor in his new home country; from a new home with a sinister secret, to the discovery that a long-dead parent’s corpse is perfectly preserved decades later; this collection plumbs the depths of the psyche and dredges up some very modern horrors. READERS ARE OBSESSED 'Stunning' 'Well-plotted and horrifying' 'Visceral, creepy, gory… stays in your head long after reading them' 'It's so satisfying to turn to the next story in an anthology like this and be pretty confident it's going to be a banger… bravo' 'Spine-tingling… I was gripped and it kept me up at night as I just wanted to read one more story' 'Often unusual, always unique… a wildly eclectic cornucopia of horror'

''Outstandingly weird and memorable'' GUARDIAN''Deliciously creepy'' NEW SCIENTISTFear never dies…Featuring stories from Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enríquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart, Ainslie Hogarth, Robert Lautner, Adorah Nworah, Irenosen Okojie, Lucy Rose, Lionel Shriver, James Smythe, Lavie Tidhar, Francine Toon, Evie Wyld and Louisa Young. These stories from eighteen master storytellers will curdle your blood, haunt your dreams and redefine terror.From a hungry young woman who is not what she seems, to a boy who has taken his mother''s advice a little too seriously; from disfigured girls willing to pay any price to fit in, to an immigrant who cannot escape his tormentor in his new home country; from a new home with a sinister secret, to the discovery that a long-dead parent’s corpse is perfectly preserved decades later; this collection plumbs the depths of the psyche and dredges up some very modern horrors.READERS ARE OBSESSED''Stunning''''Well-plotted and horrifying''''Visceral, creepy, gory… stays in your head long after reading them''''It''s so satisfying to turn to the next story in an anthology like this and be pretty confident it''s going to be a banger… bravo''''Spine-tingling… I was gripped and it kept me up at night as I just wanted to read one more story''''Often unusual, always unique… a wildly eclectic cornucopia of horror''

'Outstandingly weird and memorable' GUARDIAN'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies… Featuring stories from Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enríquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart, Ainslie Hogarth, Robert Lautner, Adorah Nworah, Irenosen Okojie, Lucy Rose, Lionel Shriver, James Smythe, Lavie Tidhar, Francine Toon, Evie Wyld and Louisa Young. These stories from eighteen master storytellers will curdle your blood, haunt your dreams and redefine terror.From a hungry young woman who is not what she seems, to a boy who has taken his mother's advice a little too seriously; from disfigured girls willing to pay any price to fit in, to an immigrant who cannot escape his tormentor in his new home country; from a new home with a sinister secret, to the discovery that a long-dead parent’s corpse is perfectly preserved decades later; this collection plumbs the depths of the psyche and dredges up some very modern horrors. READERS ARE OBSESSED 'Stunning' 'Well-plotted and horrifying' 'Visceral, creepy, gory… stays in your head long after reading them' 'It's so satisfying to turn to the next story in an anthology like this and be pretty confident it's going to be a banger… bravo' 'Spine-tingling… I was gripped and it kept me up at night as I just wanted to read one more story' 'Often unusual, always unique… a wildly eclectic cornucopia of horror'

Frank and Leon are two men from different times, discovering that sometimes all you learn from your parents' mistakes is how to make different ones of your own. Frank is trying to escape his troubled past by running away to his family's beach shack. As he struggles to make friends with his neighbors and their precocious young daughter, Sal, he discovers the community has fresh wounds of its own. A girl is missing, and when Sal too disappears, suspicion falls on Frank.Decades earlier, Leon tries to hold together his family's cake shop as their suburban life crumbles in the aftermath of the Korean War. When war breaks out again, Leon must go from sculpting sugar figurines to killing young men as a conscript in the Vietnam War.

Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It’s just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. Which is how she wanted it to be. But something is coming for the sheep – every few nights it picks one off, leaves it in rags.It could be anything. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, rumours of an obscure, formidable beast. And there is Jake’s unknown past, perhaps breaking into the present, a story hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, in a landscape of different colour and sound, a story held in the scars that stripe her back.Winner of the Miles Franklin AwardWinner of the Encore AwardWinner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered AwardShortlisted for the Costa Novel PrizeShortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial PrizeLonglisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction

Evie Wyld was a girl obsessed with sharks. Spending summers in the brutal heat of coastal New South Wales, she fell for the creatures. Their teeth, their skin, their eyes; their hunters and their victims. Everything is Teeth is a delicate and intimate collection of the memories she brought home to England, a book about family, love and the irresistible forces that pass through life unseen, under the surface, ready to emerge at any point.

Frank and Leon are two men from different times, discovering that sometimes all you learn from your parents' mistakes is how to make different ones of your own. Frank is trying to escape his troubled past by running away to his family's beach shack. As he struggles to make friends with his neighbors and their precocious young daughter, Sal, he discovers the community has fresh wounds of its own. A girl is missing, and when Sal too disappears, suspicion falls on Frank.Decades earlier, Leon tries to hold together his family's cake shop as their suburban life crumbles in the aftermath of the Korean War. When war breaks out again, Leon must go from sculpting sugar figurines to killing young men as a conscript in the Vietnam War.

‘A thoughtful and intense account of a young woman seemingly determined to disappear from the world’s radar…’ ObserverJake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It’s just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. Which is how she wanted it to be. But something is coming for the sheep – every few nights it picks one off, leaves it in rags.It could be anything. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, rumours of an obscure, formidable beast. And there is Jake’s unknown past, perhaps breaking into the present, a story hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, in a landscape of different colour and sound, a story held in the scars that stripe her back.‘Unsettling, dark and extraordinarily fresh’ The Times‘A hair-prickling thriller… It's the quality of [Wyld's] prose that really blows your mind’ Metro**Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize****Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction**

Evie Wyld was a girl obsessed with sharks. Spending summers in the brutal heat of coastal New South Wales, she fell for the creatures. Their teeth, their skin, their eyes; their hunters and their victims. Everything is Teeth is a delicate and intimate collection of the memories she brought home to England, a book about family, love and the irresistible forces that pass through life unseen, under the surface, ready to emerge at any point.

'A modern gothic triumph' Max PorterThe Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fates of three women are linked: to this place, to each other.In the early 1700s, Sarah, accused of being a witch, flees for her life.In the aftermath of the Second World War, Ruth navigates a new house, a new husband and the strange waters of the local community. Six decades later, the house stands empty. Viv, mourning the death of her father, catalogues Ruth's belongings and discovers her place in the past - and perhaps a way forward.Each woman's choices are circumscribed by the men in their lives. But in sisterhood there is the hope of survival and new life...WINNER OF THE STELLA PRIZE_______________PRAISE FOR THE BASS ROCK:'Daring, heartfelt, explosive' Daisy Johnson'A vividly imagined portrait' Sunday Times'Dark, disturbing and very sophisticated' William Boyd 'Wonderfully subtle and magnificently savage' Claire Fuller

Max didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he died. This summer, discover the beautiful novel that ‘will stay with you forever’ (Observer).‘Like all the best ghost stories, The Echoes is also a love story’ PAULA HAWKINS‘Captivating, funny, clever’ SAMANTHA HARVEYAs a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, Max watches his girlfriend Hannah in the flat they shared and begins to realise how much of her life was invisible to him.In the months before Max’s death, Hannah is haunted by the secrets she left Australia to escape. A relationship with Max seems to offer the potential of a different story. Yet the past refuses to stay hidden.A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, NEW STATESMAN AND DAILY MAIL‘A powerful love story . . . A masterly achievement’ SUNDAY TIMES‘I absolutely devoured this . . . Astonishing’ JON McGREGOR‘What a discovery’ ANNE ENRIGHT‘Compulsively readable’ FINANCIAL TIMES

Max didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he died. This summer, discover the beautiful novel that ‘will stay with you forever’ (Observer).‘Like all the best ghost stories, The Echoes is also a love story’ PAULA HAWKINS‘Captivating, funny, clever’ SAMANTHA HARVEYAs a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, Max watches his girlfriend Hannah in the flat they shared and begins to realise how much of her life was invisible to him.In the months before Max’s death, Hannah is haunted by the secrets she left Australia to escape. A relationship with Max seems to offer the potential of a different story. Yet the past refuses to stay hidden.A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, NEW STATESMAN AND DAILY MAIL‘A powerful love story . . . A masterly achievement’ SUNDAY TIMES‘I absolutely devoured this . . . Astonishing’ JON McGREGOR‘What a discovery’ ANNE ENRIGHT‘Compulsively readable’ FINANCIAL TIMES

'A modern gothic triumph' Max PorterThe Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fates of three women are linked: to this place, to each other.In the early 1700s, Sarah, accused of being a witch, flees for her life.In the aftermath of the Second World War, Ruth navigates a new house, a new husband and the strange waters of the local community. Six decades later, the house stands empty. Viv, mourning the death of her father, catalogues Ruth's belongings and discovers her place in the past - and perhaps a way forward.Each woman's choices are circumscribed by the men in their lives. But in sisterhood there is the hope of survival and new life...WINNER OF THE STELLA PRIZE_______________PRAISE FOR THE BASS ROCK:'Daring, heartfelt, explosive' Daisy Johnson'A vividly imagined portrait' Sunday Times'Dark, disturbing and very sophisticated' William Boyd 'Wonderfully subtle and magnificently savage' Claire Fuller

Max didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he died.'A masterly achievement' SUNDAY TIMES'A book that will stay with you forever' OBSERVER'Precise and unforgiving' GUARDIAN'Compulsively readable' FINANCIAL TIMES'It takes brilliance to leap into the darkness' ANNE ENRIGHT'My favourite Wyld novel' PAULA HAWKINSAs a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, Max watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the flat they shared and begins to realise how much of her life was invisible to him. In the weeks and months before Max’s death, Hannah is haunted by the secrets she left Australia to escape.A relationship with Max seems to offer the potential of a different story, but the past refuses to stay hidden. It finds expression in the untold stories of the people she grew up with, the details of their lives she never knew and the events that broke her family apart and led her to Max.Both a celebration and autopsy of a relationship, The Echoes is a novel about stories and who has the right to tell them, asking what of our past can we shrug off and what is fixed forever.*A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE NEW STATESMAN, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER AND DAILY MAIL*

Bass Rock, eine unbewohnte Felseninsel vor der schottischen Küste, wirft seit Jahrhunderten ihren Schatten auf das Festland und seine Bewohner. Neu unter ihnen: Ruth Hamilton, die in den Jahren nach dem Krieg mit ihrem Mann und zwei Stiefsöhnen in ein zugiges Landhaus an der Küste zieht. Sie zum ersten Mal schwanger und zunehmend auf sich allein gestellt: die Stiefkinder im Internat, der Mann für Wochen in seiner Londoner Kanzlei. Als Großstädterin hadert Ruth mit der Abgeschiedenheit und auch mit den sonderbaren Gebräuchen der einheimischen Gesellschaft. Ein Strandpicknick mitten im Winter? Die eigenartig kostümierten Frauen? Ruth passt sich an, ein wenig. Bis sie begreift: Das hier passiert nicht nur ihr. Es ist ein altes Spiel. Sie wird es nicht gewinnen.Ein halbes Jahrhundert später, das Anwesen vor Bass Rock steht zum Verkauf, kommt wieder eine junge Frau in den Norden. Viv hadert mit ihrem Single-Dasein, aber auch mit den Gelegenheiten, es zu beenden. Außerdem schläft sie schlecht, in jedem der Betten in dem alten Haus. Ihr ist, als würde sie heimgesucht von dunklen alten Geschichten. Geschichten von aufsässigen Frauen, von Frauen in Bedrängnis. Und ihre Stiefgroßmutter Ruth ist nur eine davon.Evie Wylds «Die Frauen» ist eine feministische Ghost Story, ein mitreißender Gesellschaftsroman. Im Ton mal elegant, mal drastisch und voller Wut über eine Welt, die den Männern allein gehört. Ein kämpferisches Buch von einer besonderen Brillanz und Bandbreite.

Los secretos del pasado nunca nos abandonan.Jake es una mujer huraña que vive recluida en una vieja granja en una isla del Reino Unido junto a su perro collie y sus ovejas. Un día, estas empiezan a aparecer muertas. Nadie sabe qué está pasando, aunque Jake está convencida de que todo es obra de una bestia misteriosa que merodea por la isla. Poco a poco, el lector descubrirá todos los secretos de Jake, que se ha refugiado en la isla para escapar de su turbulento pasado en Australia, donde dejó atrás enemigos y fantasmas.El misterio y la naturaleza palpitan en esta tensa narración sobre la búsqueda de la redención en una intriga magistralmente trabada. Evie Wyld es una de las mejores autoras jóvenes según la revista Granta.Novela ganadora del premio de Literatura de la Unión Europea, del Premio Miles Franklin y del Premio Encore.  Novela finalista del Premio Costa, del Premio James Tait Black y del Premio Bailey's. "Una novela que destila melancolía y suspense. Wyld demuestra una gran maestría. Destacan las escenas de humor negro y la veneración sin sentimentalismos de la autora hacia la naturaleza."The New Yorker"Por una vez, el hype publicitario que se ha hecho de una obra es equiparable al talento que destila. La escritura de Wyld procede de un lugar profundo y algo desconcertante."The Sunday Times"Hechiza (…) La prosa mantiene un ritmo ominoso y sutilmente construido. El aspecto más impresionante de la novela es su estructura."The New York Times"Una obra atrevida y salvaje. Desde la primera frase de la perturbadora novela de Wyld, el lector se adentra en un mundo lleno de violencia y misterio psicológico. La amenaza está presente en cada una de las páginas."The Boston Globe"La obra tiene un ritmo rápido, refleja seguridad y es emocionalmente desgarradora. El lector no solo se pondrá del lado de Jake, sino que verá el mundo, también los acontecimientos más duros, con mayor claridad a través de sus ojos."The New York Times Book Review"Una atmósfera asfixiante cargada de amenazas y pánico incierto (…) Wyld conduce a los lectores con habilidad hacia el misterioso incidente del que Jake trata de escapar y los mantiene sumidos en la oscuridad, mientras los tortura con sutileza."The Wall Street Journal"Una de esas novelas que se quedan en tu mente como fuegos artificiales oscuros, extraordinaria (…) En cuanto terminas la historia, tienes ganas de volver a leerla."Financial Times