Her entry begins:
I’ve been reading 1950s cookery books a little bit over the last couple of months - mainly they’re Good Housekeeping editions - I’ve become sort of fascinated by things in aspic. They’ve always interested me, but I didn’t know about the sheer variety of horrible things you could make.About All the Birds, Singing, from the publisher:
I also just finished The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan, which was one of the most exciting, beautiful books I’ve read in recent history. It gives every character the space that they need, it doesn’t skate over a single thing. It’s a tough read - the subject is the Thai-Burma Death Railway and the POWs who built it, but it reminded me...[read on]
From one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful new novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past: a story of loneliness and survival, guilt and loss, and the power of forgiveness.Follow Evie Wyld on Twitter and visit her website.
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 aflock 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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