SIMON: I mean, there are lots of teenage jerks in the town.
WYLD: And she's trying to work out what that is. WYLD: Well, so the idea is that there is a creature in the woods, or something at least is killing Jake's sheep at night. SIMON: But what keeps people going after that? SIMON: What keeps us reading after that, though? And you recognize there's some people that'll particularly - I must say, when I read crusting, I thought, oh. I shoved my boot in Dog's face to stop him from taking a string of her away with him as a souvenir, and he kept close by my side as I wheeled the carcass out of the field and down into the wool shed. 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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