With exceptional artistry and empathy, All the Birds, Singing reveals an isolated life in all its struggles and stubborn hopes, unexpected beauty, and hard-won redemption. When we first meet Jake Whyte, she’s tending her flock on an island off the coast of England. And there is also Jake's past-hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, held in the silences about her family and the scars that stripe her back-a past that threatens to break into the present. ALL THE BIRDS, SINGING by Evie Wyld RELEASE DATE: ApThe second novel from award-winning Australian author Wyld ( After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, 2009) explores the checkered past of a self-reliant young woman, a sheep farmer. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, rumors of an obscure, formidable beast. But every few nights something-or someone-picks off one of the sheep and sounds a new deep pulse of terror. Her disobedient collie, Dog, and a flock of sheep are her sole companions, which is how she wanted it to be. Jake Whyte is living on her own in an old farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists comes a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past: a story of loneliness and survival, guilt and loss, and the power of forgiveness.
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