All the Birds, Singing
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Winner of the 2014 Miles Franklin Award
Who or what is watching Jake Whyte from the woods?
Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It’s just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. Which is how she wanted it to be. But something is coming for the sheep – every few nights it picks one off, leaves it in rags.
It could be anything. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, rumours of an obscure, formidable beast. And there is Jake’s unknown past, perhaps breaking into the present, a story hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, in a landscape of different colour and sound, a story held in the scars that stripe her back.
Set between Australia and a remote English island, All the Birds, Singing is the story of one how one woman’s present comes from a terrible past. It is the second novel from the award-winning author of After the Fire, A Still Small Voice.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Evie Wyld was named in Granta’s 2013 list of Best Young Novelists, and All the Birds, Singing demonstrates why. This beautifully written, skillfully plotted tale tells the story of a woman whose journey in life goes from shearing in remote Western Australia to farming on an English island, all to escape a traumatic past that refuses to stay buried.
