All the Birds, Singing
A Novel
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3.9 • 36 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
From one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful new novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past: a story of loneliness and survival, guilt and loss, and the power of forgiveness.
Jake Whyte is living on her own in an old farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rain and battering wind. Her disobedient collie, Dog, and a flock of sheep are her sole companions, which is how she wants it to be. But every few nights something—or someone—picks off one of the sheep and sounds a new deep pulse of terror. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, and rumors of an obscure, formidable beast. 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. 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.
This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Customer Reviews
So Close
I gave this work four stars in recognition of the very high quality of its taut writing, which very effectively builds piece by piece in telling the the protagonist’s exceptional story. It really drew me in and was difficult to put down. It was easily a five star book until the very end, where it basically leaves you hanging in mid air with resolution of neither the story line nor the story’s compelling angst. So disappointing!
All the Birds Singing
I was disappointed in this book. With the chronology of the story jumbled, it was hard to follow the track of Jake's life. What was real and what was a phantom? As the bits and pieces come together, I was expecting some sort of redemption. That didn't happen, hence my disappointment. It is a sad, dark tale that ultimately doesn't find a resolution. It just...stops.