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All the Birds, Singing

All the Birds, Singing

Summary


‘A thoughtful and intense account of a young woman seemingly determined to disappear from the world’s radar…’ Observer

Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British 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.

‘Unsettling, dark and extraordinarily fresh’ The Times

‘A hair-prickling thriller… It's the quality of [Wyld's] prose that really blows your mind’ Metro


**Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize**
**Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction**

Reviews

  • Unsettling, dark and extraordinarily fresh. It feels eccentrically, wonderfully British… An inimitable, original new voice. Can’t wait to read more.
    Viv Groskop, The Times

About the author

Evie Wyld

Evie Wyld is the award-winning author of four novels and one graphic novel. She has won the Betty Trask Award, Miles Franklin Award, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Encore Award, Jerwood Fiction Prize and the European Union Prize. In 2013 she was included in Granta’s once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and helps run an independent bookshop in Peckham called Review.
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