All the Birds, Singing: A Novel

All the Birds, Singing: A Novel

From one of Grantaâ€™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.
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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 somethingâ€”or someoneâ€”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 Jakeâ€™s past, hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, held in the silences about her family and the scars that stripe her backâ€”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.

This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Country USA
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-04-15
Format Kindle eBook