Where The Crawdads Sing
Another fortnight, another book to tear apart with our girls! This week the girls dive into Delia Owens' acclaimed debut, Where The Crawdads Sing - a touching exploration of humanity and relationships both with people and the world around us, and what it means to be truly alone.
How do the girls manage their second week of super deep topics? Well I'm glad you asked!
- We start off with Chloe being propositioned by some random aullad on IG (it wasn't JK, just so yiz are aware)
- Take a whistle-stop tour of the gorgeous language used by Owens throughout the book - which weirdly brings us to a brief intro to cellular biology
- Whether a book can have notions about itself - which might be the most Irish thing we've talked about so far
- How if Chloe's sisters turn out to be Instagram Influencers the girls will never stop making fun of Chloe EVER
- Cliodhna's childhood fantasy to run away to a deserted island Enid Blyton novel stylee and live on berries and wild honey
- What the bathroom situation is on said island escape
- And our continued obsession with how we think fictional characters smell (nice characters. This is unrelated to the bathroom discussion. We shut Sarah down before she could go there)
All this and way way more - the girls had an actual physical need to race through this book and are so excited to share their thoughts on it!
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More on where the Crawdads Sing
For years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life - until the unthinkable happens.
More on Delia Owens:
Delia Owens is the co-author of three internationally bestselling nonfiction books about her life as a wildlife scientist in Africa including Cry of the Kalahari.
She has won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing and has been published in Nature, The African Journal of Ecology, and many others.
She currently lives in North Carolina. Where the Crawdads Sing is her first novel.
For more on Delia Owens, visit