Where the Crawdads Sing is the perfect pick for the Duchess of Cornwall’s book club
5/5
This decades-spanning saga of a girl in North Carolina hits the sweet spots of romance, crime and thriller – and will fuel great discussions
15 January 2021 • 6:00am
Delia Owens, a zoologist turned novelist, took 10 years to write Where the Crawdads Sing, which was Amazon’s most-read and most-sold book of 2019 and topped the New York Times bestseller lists
The Duchess of Cornwall has announced Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens as one of her next choices for her new book club – a book that, if we’d been allowed to travel in the summer of 2020, would have doubtless covered most of the sun loungers. A saga spanning the best part of 60 years, it follows Kya, a young girl living alone in the marshes, and brings in enough romance, crime and thriller elements to satisfy any reader in need of distraction – to which, hello lockdown.