Our Last Wild Days, Anna Bailey
Our Last Wild Days, Anna Bailey
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Our Last Wild Days

Author: Anna Bailey

Narrator: Kate Handford

Unabridged: 10 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/20/2025


Synopsis

From the author of the “irresistible” (Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Where the Truth Lies, an atmospheric novel about a young woman who searches for answers after her estranged friend is found dead in the bayou of their rural Louisiana hometown.

The Labasques aren’t like other families.

Living in a shack out in the swamps, they made do by hunting down alligators and other animals. To the good people of Jacknife, Louisiana, they are troublemakers and outcasts, the kind of people you wouldn’t want in your community.

So, when Cutter Labasque is found face down in the muddy swamp, no one seems to care, not even her two brothers. The only person who questions the official verdict of suicide is Cutter’s childhood friend, Loyal May, who has just returned home to care for her mother. When she left town at eighteen years old, she betrayed Cutter. Now with a ragtag group from the local paper where she works, Loyal goes in search of answers, uncovering a web of deceit and corruption that implicates those in town. It may be too late to apologize to Cutter, but Loyal has restitution in mind.

Weaving through the swamps and bayous of rural Louisiana, Our Last Wild Days is an atmospheric, smoldering suspense about our darker impulses—and how to set things right.

About Anna Bailey

Anna Bailey is a Sunday Times (London) bestselling author from Gloucestershire. Their debut novel, Tall Bones (published in the US as Where the Truth Lies), inspired by their experiences living in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, was nominated for the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year and Goldsboro Glass Bell awards, as well as the Prix Nouvelles Voix du Polar. Their short stories, based on their travels through rural America, have been dramatised for BBC Radio 4, including “Long Way to Come for a Sip of Water”, which was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. They live in Bordeaux with their wife.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on May 21, 2025

Haunting, lyrical, and dripping with Southern gothic atmosphere—Anna Bailey’s Our Last Wild Days completely consumed me. From the moment I stepped into the sweltering, mosquito-bitten swamps of Jackknife, Louisiana, I was hooked. This is not just a thriller—this is a slow-burn character study, a medi......more

Goodreads review by Debra on May 15, 2025

Dark, atmospheric, with tension lurking just below the surface, Our Last Wild Days sucked me in and never let go. This book began as a bit of a slow burn for me and I do struggle with them, but the author won me over with her wonderful writing, vivid descriptions, and the mystery surrounding Cutter......more

Goodreads review by James on May 04, 2025

I gave Anna Bailey's debut five stars which is a rarity for me. When I began reading her sophomore book, Our Last Wild Days, I was unimpressed or possibly not interested in the setting. A desolate Louisiana swamp setting where accents were abundant and painful, personalities were of little intrigue,......more

Goodreads review by Nikki on May 22, 2025

All the thanks to @atriabooks #partner @atriathrillers for my #gifted arc copy and to @scaredstraightreads for my gorgeous hardback copy giveaway win! #scaredstraightreads Loyal May (awesome name btw) has returned to her hometown of Jacknife, Louisiana, a place she fled a decade earlier after a fall......more

Goodreads review by Tammy on May 17, 2025

Not to be missed if you’re a fan of Southern gothic thrillers - so good that I sent out for a physical copy. There’s so much I enjoyed about this book. Bailey’s attention to detail of the Louisiana bayou landscape felt surreal, and in the way she seamlessly combines eerie suspense with a fittingly d......more