Waiting on Wednesday - All the Birds, Singing; Evie Wyld

Is there a book that you recently read about, that hasn't been published yet, but that you are anxious to read? Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

 

All the Birds Singing; Evie Wyld

April-2014 - Pantheon

***Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Award for Best Novel***

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.