All the Birds, Singing (Audiobook)

from SueS7

The female character, Jake has a chequered past. She has been escaping from an event that had devastating results. The mistake she made as a teenager haunts Jake and she lives with the fear of being found out. Her life is a tough one, at one point resorting to prostitution to get by. It's the kin...

from Sunrhyze

This was a great story and really drew me in, especially the Australia chapters which were so cleverly done, going further and further back in time with each one. When we finally find out how Jake got the scars on her back, it's not at all what we'd been expecting. Wyld held my attention from beg...

from booklove2

Jake's story unravels bit by bit in this slight book, just like it takes a hurt person time to trust people again after being damaged by other people... as Jake has. You know she has been through some things. What I loved about the book: the structure. The chapters alternate between past and pres...

from SheTreadsSoftly

All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld is a highly recommended darkly atmospheric character study.Jake Whyte is a taciturn young woman who is currently living as a sheep farmer on an island off the coast of England. She wants nothing more than to live a quiet life away from everyone else but she is ...

from alexrichman

A novel teeming with nature and nasty people. The protagonist, at once supremely tough and deeply vulnerable, reminded me of Eimar McBride's half-formed girl but while that book lurches forward this spools backwards, with secrets unfolding slowly but satisfactorily.