Wyld's writing seems to come from somewhere deep somewhere a little bit unnerving.' - The Sunday Times(UK) An indelible and atmospheric novel that will have the hairs on the back of your neck working overtime.' - Daily Mail(UK) 'An intensely involving tale of survival, shot through with Wyld's distinctive wit. 'Extraordinarily accomplished, one of those books that tears around in your cerebellum like a dark firework, and which, upon finishing, you immediately want to pick up again.' - Financial Times(UK) Quite as good as Ian McEwan's early fiction.' - The Spectator (UK) She reconfigures the conventions of storytelling with a sure-footedness and ambition which belie her age. almost Nabokovian in its structural intricacy.' - New Statesman (UK) A dark, powerfully disturbing and beautifully observed story. 'Wyld has ordained a permanently dark life for her protagonist, a stubborn fate that offsets the surprises and the reader's enjoyment.' - Kirkus Jake is both haunted by the past and struggling with the present, and the intensity of Wyld's sharp novel grows as the two threaten to collide.' - Booklist It is a testament to Wyld's vivid storytelling that readers will feel determined to drag themselves through her tale's more unsavory moments to its final revelation.' - Publishers Weekly

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. 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.

There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, and rumors of an obscure, formidable beast. But every few nights something - or someone -picks off one of the sheep and sounds a new deep pulse of terror. Her disobedient collie, Dog, and a flock of sheep are her sole companions, which is how she wants it to be. Jake Whyte is living on her own in an old farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rain and battering wind. 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.

All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld