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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
2013

Pages
  
240 pp

Author
  
Evie Wyld

Country
  
Australia

3.6/5
Goodreads

Genres
  
Literary

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
2013

ISBN
  
9781742757308

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Publisher
  
Random House, Australia

Preceded by
  
After the Fire, A Still Small Voice

Awards
  
European Union Prize for Literature

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All the Birds, Singing is a 2013 novel by Australian author Evie Wyld. It won the 2014 Miles Franklin Award and the 2014 Encore Award.

Contents

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Description

The novel tells the story of Jake Whyte who lives on an unnamed island off the coast of Britain tending her flock of sheep with her dog, Dog. Someone, or something, is killing her sheep, and her investigations lead her and the reader back to her time in Australia "to the 'original sin' that sets everything in motion".

Awards

  • 2013 winner Encore Award
  • 2014 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards – Fiction Book
  • 2014 winner Miles Franklin Award
  • 2014 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards – Fiction
  • 2014 longlisted Stella Prize
  • 2014 longlisted Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

    • Reviews

  • Peter Clothier in The Huffington Post: "Wyld's prose is as muscular, sinewy, unsparing as this remarkable character. It has the precision of poetry, but without adornment, unnecessary wordage, or concession to literary conceit. The story, a hero's journey patterned on descent, ordeal--and redemption of a kind--is as compelling as the character who tells it."
  • Tim Lewis in The Guardian: " All the Birds, Singing should enhance her reputation as one of our most gifted novelists. Her pacing is impeccable and the trickle of information she marshals lends tension and compassion to Jake's troubled, solitary existence."

    • References

    All the Birds, Singing Wikipedia
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