All the Birds, Singing

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Call Number: Fiction, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Wyld, Evie
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Wyld, Evie	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"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 sounds 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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Great read submitted by aohall on June 30, 2016, 1:29pm Captivating story about a young women, following her in the present as she works on her sheep farm, and through her dramatic past.

Amazingly paced and structured submitted by unknown on July 13, 2020, 4:59pm The structure of this book is unlike anything I've read before. I don't want to give anything away, as discovering and understanding the structure is its own magic trick. Beautifully written, heartbreaking, and with a narrative arc that is so good (and where the form and function combine, to boot!), I cannot recommend this book enough (if you don't mind dark and sad).