All the Birds, Singing

**One of the Best Books of the Year in the Guardian, New Statesman, Independent, Observer****Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize, and the Costa Award for Best Novel****Winner of the Encore Award for Best Second Novel****Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award** From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, an emotionally powerful, award-winning novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past. Jake Whyte has retreated to a remote farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds, with only her collie and a flock of sheep as companions. But something - or someone - has begun picking off her sheep one by one. There are foxes in the woods, a strange man wandering the island, and rumors of a mysterious beast prowling at night. And there is Jake's relentless past--one she tried to escape thousands of miles away and years ago, concealed in stubborn silence and isolation and the scars that stripe her back. With exceptional artistry, All