- Title:
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All the Birds, Singing (MP3)
- Written by:
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Evie Wyld
- Read by:
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Caroline Lee
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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8 hours 35 minutes
- MP3 size:
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375 MB
- Published:
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July 01 2014
- Available Date:
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July 01 2014
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781486220212
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Shortlisted Costa Book Award 2013
Winner Miles Franklin Literary Award 2014
Longlisted Stella Prize 2014
Longlisted BAILEYS Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014
Winner The Encore Award 2013
Winner Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2014
'Wyld [is] shaping up into a name to watch…her second novel is unsettling, dark and extraordinarily fresh…if you’ve been waiting for a cross between Nicola Barker and Christos Tsiolkas, this is it. Although, better than that, it’s an inimitable, original new voice. Can’t wait to read more.'
The Times
From the author of the bestselling After the Fire, A Still Small Voice.
Who or what is watching Jake Whyte from the woods?
Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed 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.
Set between Australia and a remote English island, All the Birds, Singing is the story of how one woman's present comes from a terrible past.
'A strange, disturbing and admirably original story… there are tantalising hints of menace.'
Evening Standard
'One feels the influence of an early Ian McEwan or Iain Banks ... But All the Birds, Singing is also powerfully original.'
The Times Literary Supplement
‘It is no surprise that she has been included on every possible shortlist of talented young authors to look out for. Evie Wyld is the real thing.’
The Spectator
‘...it’s the quality of her prose that really blows your mind – lyrical without being cloying, full of violence and beauty...’
Metro