All the birds, singing
By: Evie Wyld
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780224096683; 9781448114481
Subjects: Australians; Sheep farming; Fiction; Islands
Description: "Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It's just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. Which is how she wanted it to be. But something is coming for the sheep--every few nights it picks one off, leaves it in rags. It could be anything. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, rumours of an obscure, formidable beast. 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."--Jacket.