A review by armorcats
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

4.0

Really complex, ambitious novel. I wanted to like it even more than I did. Time will tell if I bump up the rating. I made the mistake of reading this short book over a week with breaks in between. I kept forgetting what had happened when I started reading again. There were 4 or 5 different time periods that we switch between whenever a new chapter starts. When I got near the end when we go way back in Jake’s life, I was like “wait, what?” I flipped back through the book twice thinking I had forgotten something, but no, this was new. I also had little sense of place in this book. It never felt to me like the current times pieces were in the UK and not Australia, but that’s a small quibble. I admire this book tremendously. I think this book leads into her newest novel, The Bass Rock, beautifully in terms of structure. The Bass Rock is miraculous. All The Birds, Singing is very close.