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. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, rumours of an obscure, formidable beast. Evie Wyld’s second novel opens with its narrator, a woman named Jake Whyte, discovering one of her sheep killed and gutted. 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. But something is coming for the sheep every few nights it picks one off, leaves it in rags. It s just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. A thoughtful and intense account of a young woman seemingly determined to disappear from the world s radar ObserverJake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds.
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