All the Birds, Singing: A Novel
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Jake Whyte is living on her own in an old farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rain and battering wind. Her disobedient collie, Dog, and a flock of sheep are her sole companions, which is how she wants it to be. But every few nights something—or someone—picks off one of the sheep and sounds a new deep pulse of terror. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, and rumors of an obscure, formidable beast. And there is also Jake’s past, hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, held in the silences about her family and the scars that stripe her back—a past that threatens to break into the present. With exceptional artistry and empathy, All the Birds, Singing reveals an isolated life in all its struggles and stubborn hopes, unexpected beauty, and hard-won redemption.
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If you don´t mind that it tells part of the story backwords, you´re not easily triggered and generally think the premise sounds interesting, don´t look for more information about this book and just read it. Even though I didn´t really get the ending (I read some interpretations of it and they make sense just fine), I really liked this book. I didn't expect it to be that dark. Sure, knowing in advance that events of Jake´s past will be told I maybe should have expected something like that, but I just thought she did one thing and not how f*cked up her life was. Her backstory was told really interestingly and I was intrigued by it much more than by the present day narration. Which does not mean I did not like the current events, they just moved much slower and I could not imagine where it was going. The book was written in a realistic way, making the people seem like they could really exist. I don´t read much contemporary, but because I sympathized with Jake, the structure of narration was new and compelling and the whole plot kept me hooked, I couldn´t put this book down. It´s not a book I could have read any day, it´s too sad for that, but I think I picked it at a good time and was positively surprised by it. Expecting more of a murder-mystery, I am glad I was "deceived" because I would not have given it a try otherwise. Maybe this will even leave me more willing to try new things reading-wise.
Description
Jake Whyte is living on her own in an old farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rain and battering wind. Her disobedient collie, Dog, and a flock of sheep are her sole companions, which is how she wants it to be. But every few nights something—or someone—picks off one of the sheep and sounds a new deep pulse of terror. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, and rumors of an obscure, formidable beast. And there is also Jake’s past, hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, held in the silences about her family and the scars that stripe her back—a past that threatens to break into the present. With exceptional artistry and empathy, All the Birds, Singing reveals an isolated life in all its struggles and stubborn hopes, unexpected beauty, and hard-won redemption.
Book Information
Posts
If you don´t mind that it tells part of the story backwords, you´re not easily triggered and generally think the premise sounds interesting, don´t look for more information about this book and just read it. Even though I didn´t really get the ending (I read some interpretations of it and they make sense just fine), I really liked this book. I didn't expect it to be that dark. Sure, knowing in advance that events of Jake´s past will be told I maybe should have expected something like that, but I just thought she did one thing and not how f*cked up her life was. Her backstory was told really interestingly and I was intrigued by it much more than by the present day narration. Which does not mean I did not like the current events, they just moved much slower and I could not imagine where it was going. The book was written in a realistic way, making the people seem like they could really exist. I don´t read much contemporary, but because I sympathized with Jake, the structure of narration was new and compelling and the whole plot kept me hooked, I couldn´t put this book down. It´s not a book I could have read any day, it´s too sad for that, but I think I picked it at a good time and was positively surprised by it. Expecting more of a murder-mystery, I am glad I was "deceived" because I would not have given it a try otherwise. Maybe this will even leave me more willing to try new things reading-wise.