All the Birds, Singing

Name: All the Birds, Singing
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ISBN: 9780307907769

ISBN-10: 0307907767

ISBN-13: 9780307907769

Edition: 2013

Authors: Evie Wyld

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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 rains and battering winds. Her disobedient collie, Dog, and a flock of sheep are her sole companions, which is how she wanted it to be. But every few nights something-or someone-picks off one of the sheep and sets off a new deep pulse of terror. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, rumors of an obscure, formidable beast. But there…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/15/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Evie Wyld runs Review, a small independent bookshop London. Her first novel, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Betty Trask Award. In 2011 she was listed as one of the Culture Show's Best New British Novelists. She was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.