Where the Crawdads Sing is a phenomenon. Delia Owens's debut novel, a mystery-drama set in 50s and 60s North Carolina, topped the New York Times list of fiction best-sellers in both 2019 and 2020, and has now sold 12 million copies worldwide. One of its biggest fans, Reese Witherspoon, has produced the inevitable film. "The way that Delia Owens wrote this book with such authenticity, you could just tell she really grew up in this place," Witherspoon told Caitlin Brody at Vanity Fair. "She really appreciated the nature around her. The book is a love letter to growing up in the South." Daisy Edgar-Jones from Normal People puts on her best deep Southern accent to play Kya, a girl who lives alone in the marshlands. As a young woman, Kya has relationships with two local men (Harris Dickinson and Taylor John Smith), and considers moving back to civilisation. But when one of the men is found dead, she is put on trial for murder.
