Kate Evans

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25,858 appearances 189 recordings 3 series first heard Feb 2018 last heard 11 Sep

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The Bookshelf · Laura McPhee Browne, Leïla Slimani, Kris Kneen & Bruce Pascoe's favourite Aus books · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

And some of that is being done because there had been other people.

I mean, there have been years and years of people working as caretakers on this island, which means they have left their notes and their journals behind because a number of times a day they have to go out to the weather station and measure things.

But also Miranda then realises that there are creatures that have been carved into the trees and these sort of scarecrows that have been made.

And at first she sort of jumps and thinks there's a person and then goes, oh, no, it's this creature that's been made and it seems beautiful.

And then she gets closer and there's sort of teeth and claws.

So it's something very uncanny there.

going on.

That's our sort of first sense that there's something odd on this island.

And then she hears a sound and it's like a keening.

So it's almost like whale sound, but it hits her body.

So to her, it's the sound of, of lust and desire.

And she's really aware of this sense that there's something else there.

And then she sees somebody or she sees something on the island and

And that sort of sets things running.

Is there somebody there?

Has she imagined it?

Is Richard going to see this as well?

So slightly strange sex, monsters and sex, all of that and more.

Yes, and more.

Is stuff that Chris Neen is very interested in and explores more and more as the novel goes on.

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