It is the second novel from the award-winning author of After the Fire, A Still Small Voice. Set between Australia and a remote English island, All the Birds, Singing is the story of one how one woman’s present comes from a terrible past. 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. Jake has hooked up with Greg, a good guy, but is being blackmailed by another shearer. But something is coming for the sheep – every few nights it picks one off, leaves it in rags. (David Sandison) SIGN UP Thriller, beast-fable and fantasy, Evie Wylds second novel is a sparky, dark yarn set in a georgic world of sheep husbandry where things have gone spectacularly awry. Wyld is at her best capturing their work rhythms and cheerful profanity. It’s just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. Who or what is watching Jake Whyte from the woods?
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