![]() ![]() Wyld perfectly captures the heat and loneliness of the Outback and the taciturn nature of the people who make their lives there. As Wyld tells her story, she starts to reveal those secrets, while also recounting Jake’s attempts in Britain to identify the threat to her sheep farm. Like all the others there, Jake has secrets that she is keeping from others. The book also tells the story of Jake’s life as a shearer in remote Western Australian, where she struggles as the only woman in a very male shed. A stranger turns up on her farm, giving her grounds for suspicion. The central character, Jake, is living on the island running a small sheep farm on her own, and her sheep are dying violently from some kind of mysterious attack. All the Birds, Singing is set in a remote island off the coast of Britain, and in the scorching heat of the Australian outback. ![]()
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