num_pages: 240
description: 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 somethingor someonepicks 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 is also Jake's pasthidden thousands of miles away and years ago held in the silences about her family and the scars that stripe her backa 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.
language: English
title: All the Birds, Singing
publisher: Pantheon