All the Birds, Singing
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780224096683 (0224096680)
Publish date: June 20th 2013
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Pages no: 229
Edition language: English
SO TENSE. not without moments of brightness, but still unrelenting tension in Jake's life. reminded me weirdly of Wolf in White Van because both are circling around a central point in the narrator's life that isn't revealed til the end, but with different results. beautiful.
SO TENSE. not without moments of brightness, but still unrelenting tension in Jake's life. reminded me weirdly of Wolf in White Van because both are circling around a central point in the narrator's life that isn't revealed til the end, but with different results. beautiful.
Jake Whyte lives on an old farm on a small British island, tucked away from the world with her disobedient collie named Dog. However when her flock of sheep start dying from mysterious and horrific circumstances, Jake has to engage with the rest of the island in order to find out what is happening. ...
Another sheep, mangled and bled out, her innards not yet crusting and the vapours rising from her like a steamed pudding. Crows, their beaks shining, strutting and rasping, and when I waved my stick they flew to the trees and watched, flaring out their wings, singing, if you could call it that.I fir...
this is a book that mainly consists of these three themes: isolation, guilt, and how people will always try to escape the past. jake whyte is a tough australian who has immigrated to britain to run a sheep farm. it’s, in some ways, jake’s way of cutting herself off from the rest of the world, and g...