![]() ![]() Then there is the Australian landscape, which provides the backdrop to much of Wyld’s fiction – not unique information, perhaps, but unusual if you are British and rarely have to think about poisonous spiders or the sun. It contains a huge arsenal of research that Wyld deploys expertly without fanfare. In All the Birds, Singing, the specialist subject is sheep-farming. Her first novel, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice (2009), laid out the arcana of a Sydney cake shop, a busy marina and an Australian conscript’s experience of Vietnam. Evie Wyld, one of Granta’s “best of young British novelists 2013”, knows all about the value of unusual information – how vital it is to fiction. ![]() I may contain unusual information,” says Charlie Citrine in Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift. “I had a funny feeling sometimes, as if I had been stamped and posted and they were waiting for me to be delivered at an important address. ![]()
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