WYLD: (Reading) Another sheep, mangled and bled out, her innards not yet crusting and the vapors rising from her like a steamed pudding. SIMON: Let people judge fun for themselves. SIMON: Well, let me - can I get you to read the first paragraph of the book? WYLD: Well, I've always been interested in horror movies, and I read a lot of horror growing up. SIMON: I didn't expect to begin that way. SIMON: This book has - is kind of sinister. Jake White is at the center of the Evie Wyld's new novel "All the Birds, Singing." Evie Wyld joins us now from the BBC in London. It can't be the work or the weather, which are tough and raw - raw like the mysterious scars on Jake's back. The men who work on the island call Jake a good bloody bloke, although many locals wonder why strangers come into their midst. She lives alone, save for her dog, whose name is Dog, and the sheep she tends on a small island off the coast of Britain. Jake Whyte is a young woman who lives in a wild, windy, bloody world.
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