All the Birds, Singing
by Evie Wyld
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Pub Date Jun 20 2013 | Archive Date Feb 17 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
‘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**
A Note From the Publisher
UK - available for readers in the UK, Commonwealth and Europe, excluding Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
Advance Praise
Prase for After the Fire, a Still Small Voice:
'Superb' The Times
'The landscape
of Australia's east coast looms large in the book, wild and sinister,
filled with light and tragedy. This is a sad and lovely novel from a
talented new writer' Observer
'A terrifically self-assured debut...a cauterising, cleansing tale, told with muscular writing' Guardian
'This adroit examination of loss, lostness and trauma is the beginning of great things' Independent
'A compelling read' Financial Times
'Just
sometimes, a book is so complete, so compelling and potent, that you
are fearful of breaking its hold. This is one... Evie Wyld knits
together past and present, with tension building all the time' Daily Mail
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*Shortlisted for the Novel award in the Costa Book Awards*
A novel of profound emotional force - the follow-up to the prizewinning and highly acclaimed After the Fire, A Still Small Voice
All the Birds, Singing, is shortlisted for the Novel category in The Costa Book Awards. The judges described the book as ‘Tough, compelling, surprising and beautifully written – this book packs a real punch.’
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781448114481 |
| PRICE | £9.98 (GBP) |
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