Staff Book Club
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All the Birds, Singing
Who or what is watching Jake Whyte from the woods?
Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It's 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 Jake's 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.
Set between Australia and a remote English island, All the Birds, Singing is the story of one how one woman's present comes from a terrible past. It is the second novel from the award-winning author of After the Fire, A Still Small Voice.
Awards
2014 University of Queensland Fiction Book Award - (Shortlisted)
2014 European Union Prize for Literature - (Winner)
2014 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards - (Shortlisted)
2014 Miles Franklin Award - (Winner)
2014 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize - (Winner)
2014 Encore Award - (Winner)
Friday, June 5 at 3.30pm
The Bent Elbow
Discussion and drinks kick off at 3.30 but stay after for dinner.
RSVP Antonietta by Wednesday, June 3.
The Bent Elbow
"Recently opened in vibrant Stones Corner, The Bent Elbow offers a large variety of craft beers, excellent wine and delicious food as well as various events [Villanova Staff Book Club] in a refreshing atmosphere with the right balance between a homey pub and eating house."