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All the Birds, Singing
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Cat Gould
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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All the Birds, Singing
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Publisher's Summary
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.
What the critics say
One of the Best Books of the Year in the Guardian, New Statesman, Independent, Observer
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize, and the Costa Award for Best Novel
Winner of the Encore Award for Best Second Novel
Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award
“Swift and assured and emotionally wrenching. You won’t only root for Jake, you’ll see the world, hard facts and all, more clearly through her telling. There’s hope at the end, and wit, and friendship.... She’s unlike any character I’ve seen in fiction.” (Maile Meloy, New York Times Book Review)
“Purely gorgeous.... Writing with assurance and just enough embedded clues to help us understand what she is doing, Wyld ramps up the tension.... There’s love as well as dread in this book, a surprising sort of love - the best kind of all.” (Washington Post)
“Gloriously gruesome... Half of you wants to race through to find out what happens, half wants to pause over the dark, clotted sentences. And then the state of suspense becomes almost unbearable, and you rush through, feeling like you are sprinting through a museum of sinister curiosities, too frightened to linger.... The final revelation, when it comes, is explosive.” (NPR.org)