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Author

Evie Wyld

Evie Wyld has lived in South East London for most of her adult life, with frequent trips to Australia, and to her family’s sugar cane farm in New South Wales. Much of her writing begins with the landscapes of her childhood, remembering being alone Out the Back and making up stories. After doing the Creative Writing BA at Bath Spa University and the same MA at Goldsmiths University London, where she concentrated mainly on short stories, she spent three years writing her first novel After the Fire, a Still Small Voice which is published by Jonathan Cape in the UK, Pantheon in the US and Vintage in Australia. She works in a small independent bookshop in Peckham, South London, called Review, and lives in Stockwell.

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Title:

All the Birds, Singing

Written by:

Evie Wyld 

Read by:

Caroline Lee 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

7 

Duration:

8 hours 35 minutes 

Published:

July 01 2014 

Available Date:

July 01 2014 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781486220205 

Genres:

Fiction; Contemporary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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Price

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AUD$ 39.95

AUD$ 39.95

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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