The Clarians circulate in the peaceful town of Barkley Cove on the coast of North Carolina Rumy as a wolf child, a "girl from a swamp". After her mother leaves her in August, even older siblings leave gradually, and eventually her father will not return after many of the nights, Kya remains all alone. Although not quite…

Kya is an intelligent and sensitive girl. He lives in harmony with nature, dependent on himself in the swamp, which says home. He observes herons, collects shells and fish. Her best friends are rack and boy Tate, who, like Kya, loves nature and everything that radiates from her. They teach a young girl to read and become inseparable friends. Even in her life, there is a moment when she longs for other people, touches and love. But one day tate leaves and Kya, already a young woman, will remain alone again.

Her wild beauty will enchant a young man from the city, Chase Andrews, and a whole new life opens in front of Kyou. When the thirteenth of October 1969 Chase's body is found in the marsh without signs of life, the inhabitants of the city will start to suspect a girl from the swamp, Kyu Clark. But the swamp knows everything about death, knows that death may not always be a tragedy.

The novel where they sing crayfish is a beautiful ode for nature, is the story of an abandoned teenage girl who learns to trust people, and is also a mysterious murder with a surprising end. Delia Owens reminds us that childhood will not all live us for life and that we are all subject to the amazing mystery of nature.

The story of a girl from a swamp that takes you as a heart. In July 2022 the premiere of the film with Daisy Edgar-Jones in the lead role.