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20th March 2022
10:30am GMT

Where the Crawdads Sing will make its much long-awaited premiere in cinemas on July 22 this year. And while there is still no official trailer, Vanity Fair has provided some sneak peek images from the movie – and if these are anything to go by, the movie adaptation looks just as lush and mystifying as the novel itself.
“I read this novel probably in one day, maybe two days. I just couldn’t put it down,” Witherspoon explains to Vanity Fair about the book she took it upon herself to take to the screen.
“I fell in love with Kya as a main character, as a little girl who’s growing up in this very rural area, who’s shunned by society, and is trying to find a way to just save herself, just survive. And the way that Delia Owens wrote this book with such authenticity, you could just tell she really grew up in this place. She really appreciated the nature around her. The book is a love letter to growing up in the South, which for me really resonated because I grew up in New Orleans and Nashville.”
However, when two teenage boys of different social groups become interested in her and mysterious ways — Kya becomes entangled in the murder of the town’s football star and heart-throb, Chase Andrews. And considered by the local community as “swamp trash,” Kya becomes the prime suspect.
Told over 40 years, the movie (like novel) follows the trials and tribulations of Kya, and for those yet to read the prize-winning novel, well, you really should aim to do so ahead of the movie's epic release later this year.