{"product_id":"little-wild","title":"Little Wild","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLaura Evans\u003c\/b\u003e was born in the north of England and grew up in the Midlands. She studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge before coming in a roundabout way to journalism, where she became a magazine editor specializing in travel and nature. A lifelong city dweller who romanticizes the countryside (but knows it would eat her alive), she spent several years in both London and Bristol before making her way to the medieval city of Norwich, where she lives with her family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLittle Wild\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eEvans' debut is a refreshing, queer-friendly update to the classic gothic...An immersive delight.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eForbidden love meets witchy magic . . . A lyrical, peculiar, romantic, and fantastic mélange.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eA beguiling gothic debut, reminiscent of Du Maurier. Absolutely mesmerizing.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Lucy Rose, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lamb\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"Little Wild\u003c\/i\u003e throws the door open on a long-ago summer in an English country house to reveal, in perfect prose, the secrets and passions within. It's a study of sex, money and class between the wars and much more, gradually asserting its glorious weirdness with relish and masterful control. Snare House can claim a place with \n\u003ci\u003eAtonement's \u003c\/i\u003eTallis family home, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Little Stranger's\u003c\/i\u003e Hundreds Hall and Manderley in the list of places that haunt the reader long after the book has been closed. Debut novels don't get much better than this.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Erin Kelly, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHe Said\/She Said \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Poison Tree \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eStylish and seething, Little Wild brews a singular magic. Evans' world is ripe with wild and wicked gifts--I was a captive until the very end.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e--Rebecca Fallon, author of \n\u003ci\u003eFamily Drama\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eLittle Wild \u003c\/i\u003eis a country house novel with claws. Told in spiky, glittering prose, Laura Evans brings us into a world of simmering class tensions and long-buried secrets. As Margaret and Joanie's plan unravels in the sweltering, claustrophobic heat, the novel shape-shifts into something almost mythical in its beauty and strangeness.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDanielle Giles, author of \u003ci\u003eMere\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeyward \u003c\/i\u003emeets \u003ci\u003eAtonement \u003c\/i\u003ein a shimmering debut novel of first love, betrayal, and revenge set on a crumbling British estate. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSuffolk, 1937. As the English countryside swelters in a historic heat wave, preparations for a party at Snare House are in full swing. The Winthers' only daughter, Joanie, is returning from a summer on the Continent, a flying visit before she leaves for university at Oxford. Only Margaret, longtime ward of the family and Joanie's closest friend, knows the truth: Joanie won't be going to Oxford. Instead, the two will be leaving the stultifying society they know to live together in London, as lovers. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen the pair is discovered, and everything goes wrong. Banished to a cabin in the nearby woods, Margaret is alone with her estranged father. As summer curdles into autumn and magpies throng the forest, Margaret begins to lose herself. Her dreams turn dark and terrifying, and she wakes from them with dirt on the soles of her feet and scratches on her back. Everything suggests that a perverse power is awakening within her--perhaps the very one that led to her mother's ostracism and eventual death. If she can harness it, Margaret may be able to secure an approximation of the love she's always crave--but at what cost? \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eLittle Wild\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a feminist fairy tale, a haunting meditation on the dangers of desire, and a gripping debut from a talented new voice. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781250415066, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781250415066, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/08\/2026 pg. 1 (EAN 9781250415066, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eEvans, Laura\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLaura Evans\u003c\/b\u003e was born in the north of England and grew up in the Midlands. 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