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The Wolf Border

By: Sarah Hall
Narrated by: Louise Brealey
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For almost a decade, Rachel Caine has turned her back on home, kept distant by family disputes and her work monitoring wolves on an Idaho reservation. But now, summoned by the eccentric earl of Annerdale and his controversial scheme to reintroduce the grey wolf to the English countryside, she is back in the peat and wet light of the Lake District.

The earl's project harks back to an ancient idyll of untamed British wilderness - though Rachel must contend with modern-day concessions to health and safety, public outrage, and political gain - and the return of the grey after hundreds of years coincides with her own regeneration: impending motherhood and reconciliation with her estranged family.

The Wolf Border investigates the fundamental nature of wilderness and wildness, both animal and human. It seeks to understand the most obsessive aspects of humanity: sex, love, and conflict; the desire to find answers to the question of our existence; those complex systems that govern the most superior creature on Earth.

©2014 Sarah Hall (P)2015 Audible, Ltd Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Wolf Wilderness

Critic Reviews

"What an achievement - so vivid, so visceral, so vital. I can see the wolves and the characters in the landscape like a movie in my head. Every time I picked it up, I struggled to put it down again. It’s a beautiful construction." (Val McDermid)
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I was enchanted by this gritty story. Superbly narrated. Great character development -all flawed & all likebale in some way. Suspense, twists, turns. Best book Ive read in ages.

I loved this book

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so i have just found my new favorite author. this book is an awesome tale of love growth and wolves. the characters grow and change and i loved every minute of it. the best bit is that this is a story of a women and is tackles a variety of issues in a realatic and complex manner

great tale!!!!

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Sarah Hall 's story about a project to reintroduce wolves to the English countryside is really an examination about ideas of wilderness and regeneration - both natural and psychological. After 10 years living in the US, absorbed in her work and avoiding any emotional connections, Rachel returns to her childhood home in Northern England as head of the rewilding project. The prose vividly and poetically describes the landscape and the wolves, and the difficulties and controversies of rewilding. The real transformation though is of Rachel's inner-life. The story is narrated convincingly by Louise Brealy. I loved it.

A story about new life and transformation

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I liked the location of the story, but disappointed in the mood of the story, depressed tones, lacked real emotion.

Thought it a little far fetched and limited good characters. Laurence did not see real to me.

I probably would not read another Louise Brealey book.

Easy listen

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This book was pretty lack lustre to me. It never really went anywhere. It was just ‘meh’. Lovely narration though

I wasn’t a fan

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.