Kate Evans

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26,072 appearances 190 recordings 3 series first heard Feb 2018 last heard 5d ago

Kate Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

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.

Yes.

And it's beautifully done.

beautifully done and your sense of what's real and what's not real, what's monstrous and horrifying or what's beautiful and compelling and attractive shifts as the novel goes on, which is part of like things and bodies are being transformed.

It's also a novel that pulls on all sorts of different literary traditions about...

and demons and monsters and things falling off the edge of the world.

And some of that is done through the journals of KJ, the mysterious woman who has made these effigies and left them all over the island.

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