All the Birds, Singing: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0345802500 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her first novel, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Betty Trask Award, and All the Birds, Singing won the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Encore Award for Best Second Novel. EVIE WYLD grew up in Australia and London, where she currently resides. Wyl
Yawn I got on Amazon with all intentions of getting this for my Kindle. I happened to see the book was available used. For the first time on the site, I went for the used book at under $5. Even that meager amount was too much. I really disliked the book. The authors wordage was lovely at times, I just didn't care for what she had to say. Prepare to be rocked Fascinating account of a part of this reclusive woman's life. Brutal, disturbing and raises more questions than it answers the leap between chapters, to different periods can be confusing, but I found this story quite riveting.. Two Stars Cathy b Okay. Hard to get into it
Trouble arises when someone, or something, begins killing Jake’s sheep one by one. --Leah Strauss . A sheep farmer, Jake finds that her primary companion is her dog, named simply Dog. Jake is both haunted by the past and struggling with the present, and the intensity of Wyld’s sharp novel grows as the two threaten to collide. From Booklist Jake Whyte, the female protagonist in Wyld’s riveting second novel (following After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, 2009), lives alone on a bleak island off the British coast. At first,
But something—or someone—has begun picking off her sheep one by one. And there is Jake’s relentless past—one she tried to escape thousands of miles away and years ago, concealed in stubborn silence and isolation and the scars that stripe her back. With exceptional artistry, All the Birds, Singing plumbs a life of fierce struggle and survival, sounding depths of unexpected beauty and hard-won redemption.. From one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, an emotionally powerful, award-winning novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past. Jake Whyte has retreated to a remote farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds, with only her c