Everything Is Teeth review – shark-infested graphic memoir

Evie Wyld’s evocative story of her unhealthy childhood obsession with sharks is seamlessly united with Joe Sumner’s excellent illustrations

I’ve no idea how Evie Wyld, the prizewinning novelist (After the Fire, A Still Small Voice; All the Birds, Singing), and Joe Sumner, the model-maker and illustrator, found each other. Perhaps they’ve been friends for years; maybe their publisher matched them up. Either way, theirs is a partnership made in heaven. In Everything Is Teeth, a crazily evocative graphic memoir about Wyld’s shark-infested childhood, words and pictures are in perfect harmony, the joins between them so seamless you could almost be watching an old black-and-white film.

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