![]() ![]() After a visit from the doctor, she tells Lloyd that she wants to move the entire flock into the house until she can find what is killing them, but he says he won't let her, implying that the monster is imaginary and she is losing her mind. ![]() She trips in the tub and hits her head hard, but Lloyd finds her before she can drown. One night during lambing season, she leaves Lloyd with the sheep and goes up to the house for a bath, and comes to believe she has been followed by a wild animal. Lloyd helps her with the flock, and encourages her to go into town and visit the pub more often, but she is resistant, preferring to be alone. One night, she finds a drunk man named Lloyd sleeping in a shed on her property, but allows him to stay when he denies any knowledge of the killings, eventually inviting him into her guest room. Something begins killing - but not eating - one of her sheep every few nights, and she grows increasingly paranoid as she investigates what it could be. In the present, Jake Whyte lives on a remote Scottish island with her sheep and her dog. ![]() It won the 2014 Miles Franklin Award and the 2014 Encore Award.Īlternating chapters tell of Jake's present (in the past tense) and her past (in the present tense). All the Birds, Singing is a 2013 novel by Australian author Evie Wyld. ![]()
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