Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. Its just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. Which is how she wanted it to be. But something is coming for the sheep every few nights it picks one off, leaves it in rags.

It could be anything. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, rumours of an obscure, formidable beast. And there is Jakes unknown past, perhaps breaking into the present, a story hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, in a landscape of different colour and sound, a story held in the scars that stripe her back.

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, Singingwas longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. She lives in Peckham, London, where she runs the Review Bookshop.

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

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