The highly acclaimed second novel from the award-winning novelist Evie Wyld, named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2013. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award Winner of the Encore Award Winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Award Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction
Evie Wyld is the author of one previous novel, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, which was shortlisted for the Impac Prize, the Orange Award for New Writers and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 2013 she was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, having previously been named by the BBC as one of the twelve best new British writers. All the Birds, Singing was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. She lives in Peckham, London, where she runs the Review Bookshop.
Unsettling, dark and extraordinarily fresh. It feels eccentrically,
wonderfully British… An inimitable, original new voice. Can’t wait
to read more.
*The Times*
Wyld is a writer who reconfigures the conventions of storytelling
with a sure-footedness and ambition which belie her age... What
makes the book so outstanding is the beauty and simplicity of the
writing.
*Spectator*
One feels the influence of an early Ian McEwan or Iain Banks… But
All the Birds, Singing, is also powerfully original, strongest in
its handling of the human and animal worlds, and the thin line
between the two.
*Times Literary Supplement*
All The Birds, Singing is extraordinarily accomplished, one of
those books that tears around in your cerebellum like a dark
firework, and which, upon finishing, you immediately want to pick
up again
*Financial Times*
The closest cousin to All the Birds, Singing is Iain Banks'
masterly first novel, The Wasp Factory… Evie Wyld's two books are
quite as good as Ian McEwan's early fiction. Expect to hear her
name often from now on.
*Spectator*
Her writing is precise, intense, haunting and poetic… A nuanced
exploration of human suffering and resilience. Wyld’s writing seems
to come from somewhere deep; somewhere a little big unnerving and
odd. For once, the hype matches the talent.
*Sunday Times*
Evie Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing is an astonishing novel … The
story is compelling, the structure ambitious and the imagery vivid.
This is one talented young writer.
*Scotsman*
Oozes, drips and throbs with menace… A thoughtful and intense
account of a young woman seemingly determined to disappear from the
world’s radar… All the Birds, Singing should enhance [Wyld's]
reputation as one of our most gifted novelists.
*Observer*
A hair-prickling thriller… It's the quality of [Wyld's] prose that
really blows your mind.
*Metro*
Unsettling, beautiful, horrifying and moving in equal parts, I
haven't read anything quite like All the Birds, Singing for a long
time… An extraordinary book.
*Stylist*
A voice indebted to Banks and every bit as compelling.
*Observer*
Some novels are crafted with such care that it seems a shame
reviewers should get to paw them before readers have the chance to
admire their intricacy... Ingeniously constructed narrative.
*Literary Review*
Beautifully written.
*Civilian*
Wyld's writing...is exquisite. An unusual novel that should win its
author even more prizes.
*The Simple Things*
Admirably original.
*Evening Standard*
Compelling.
*Sunday Telegraph*
There is a fantastically handled creeping dread to the narrative
flow… The ambiguity of Jake's story and her history are played with
brilliantly throughout, making this an eerie, creepy kind of
existential thriller.
*Big Issue*
Tim Winton [is] a writer with whom the fearless Wyld deserves
serious comparison.
*Sunday Telegraph*
Completely and utterly monumental. Powerful and beautiful
written... I was a fan of Evie Wyld beforehand and this is such a
leap forwards. An important book.
*Saturday Review, Radio 4*
Thriller, beast-fable and fantasy, Evie Wyld’s second novel is a
sparky, dark yarn set in a georgic world of sheep husbandry where
things have gone spectacularly awry.
*Independent*
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