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A moving, heartfelt, original book in which the interior world of the imagination is more real than the external world. This is an inalienably truthful quality of childhood and Sumner has rendered it beautifully . . . Sumner s artwork is wondrous, the perfect visual correlative to Wyld s spare lyricism . . . In both words and pictures, the unsaid/unseen churns powerfully underneath . . . In these times of culturally sanctioned self-absorption and self-promotion, it is remarkable how an autobiographical I stress this book can enact a movement away from the self and become the repository of so much humility . . . How did she do it? Neel Mukherjee, Independent Wyld s first two novels are taut, minimalist works of sparse beauty exploring loss and loneliness, and although she is using a different form here, Everything Is Teeth is their natural successor . . . The story reveals more of Wyld s gift for vignette, and her laser focus on the tiny moments of sadness that can shape our lives . . . The implicit narrative of family difficulties becomes itself like a shark, with Wyld s prose the sinister fin on the surface, the weight of words left unsaid supported by the driving force of Sumner s illustrations . . . Quietly devastating. Charlotte Runcie, Daily Telegraph In Everything Is Teeth, a crazily evocative graphic memoir about Wyld s shark-infested childhood, words and pictures are in perfect harmony, the joins between them so seamless you could almost be watching an old black-and-white film . . . A partnership made in heaven . . . What a fantastic book this is. Rachel Cooke, The Observer Sharks cruise menacingly across the pages of this subtle and evocative autobiography . . . Wyld uses her signature oblique style to excellent effect in conjuring up a child s world of everyday nightmares . . . It is genuinely terrifying. Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian Eerily intimate . . . Wyld s frank, suspenseful, charming, and often poetic musings, mirrored by Joe Sumner s delicately abstract and violently realistic cartoons encompass childhood anxieties beyond sharks . . . Though obviously different in style, content, and context, Everything Is Teeth is a graphic family memoir along the lines of artist-writer Art Spiegelman s Pulitzer Prize winning Maus. Alternately darkly comic and just plain dark, Sumner s mostly black-and-white illustrations add a cool, dreamlike quality to Wyld s words. Robert Drewe, Sydney Morning Herald

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EVIE WYLD’s first novel, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize and a Betty Trask Award; her second, All the Birds, Singing, won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the European Union Prize for Literature, and the Encore Award for best second novel. She has also been short-listed for the Orange Award for New Writers, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. In 2013 she was named one of Granta’s Best of Young Brit­ish Novelists. She lives in London, where she runs the Review bookshop.   JOE SUMNER is a London-based model maker and illustrator. Everything Is Teeth is his first book.

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