It is a testament to Wyld's vivid storytelling that readers will feel determined to drag themselves through her tale's more unsavory moments to its final revelation." - Publishers Weekly 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. 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. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, and rumors of an obscure, formidable beast. But every few nights something - or someone -picks off one of the sheep and sounds a new deep pulse of terror. Her disobedient collie, Dog, and a flock of sheep are her sole companions, which is how she wants it to be. Jake Whyte is living on her own in an old farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rain and battering wind. 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.
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