![]() ![]() It's an inventive and occasionally discombobulating way of telling a story, but anyone who has read Wyld's debut, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, will not be surprised. Jake has a past – "We've all got a past," one of the shearers tells her – and slowly it is revealed why she might have chosen to move to the other side of the world. She is strong and hard-working and receives the highest accolade from her male colleagues of being "a good bloody bloke". We meet her on a sheep station in the outback, where she works as a shearer. While the British sections progress as a straightforward narrative, the scenes in Australia unfold in reverse, from adult life back to childhood. The chapters on the island are interspersed with episodes from Jake's earlier life in Australia. ![]() But All the Birds, Singing is not a ruminant whodunnit exactly it is a thoughtful and intense account of a young woman seemingly determined to disappear from the world's radar. ![]() Whyte suspects local kids, but accepts that it could also be a fox or a more shadowy creature that is said to lurk in the woods. Well, it's more like 48 sheep now as someone or something is gruesomely picking them off at night. Jake lives alone on a creepy, unnamed island off the coast of Britain, tending 50 sheep with her dog, Dog. ![]()
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