6/28/2023 0 Comments All the birds singing review![]() ![]() But Jake is troubled as well as strong, running from the many tragedies in her past, including one experience that left a nasty scar on her back. Wyld's writing is as muscular as Jake, who, when spooked, drops to the floor to do push-ups. Jake's current fears include a man in a suit who shows up on her property, and a shadowy beast that she heard going berserk in her cottage one night. Her traumatic past includes a stint as a prostitute and a relationship with the creepy Otto, who ostensibly "rescues" Jake from the streets, only to turn her into a sex slave of sorts. In the present, something, or someone, is gruesomely killing Jake's sheep. Jake Whyte, a young Englishwoman, is a sheep farmer on a desolate scrap of island very like the Isle of Wight, where the author, who was named one of the best young British novelists of 2013 by Granta, spent much of her childhood. In the searing second novel from Wyld (After the Fire, a Still Small Voice), the past takes real and imagined forms, all terrifying, in its protagonist's life. ![]()
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