The Wolf Border: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Mar 2015 · Faber & Faber
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'One of the finest writers at work today.' Damon Galgut
'A writer of show-stopping genius.' Guardian
'So vivid, so visceral, so vital.' Val McDermid
For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home and worked in Idaho at a reservation for wolves. As one of the few experts in her field she is summoned back to England by the eccentric Earl of Annerdale to help with his plan for re-wilding wolves on his estate in the Lake District. As Rachel attempts a gradual reconciliation with her estranged family, her work with the Earl begins to generate public outrage and the threat of sabotage. Set against a backdrop of Scottish independence and tumultuous power struggles both locally and nationally, The Wolf Border is a novel steeped in wilderness and wildness, both animal and human.
'A graceful, visceral, utterly compelling read.' Sunday Express magazine
'A thrilling tale of politics and power . . . Compulsively absorbing and masterfully plotted, it confirms Hall as one of our finest fiction writers.' Daily Mail
'A compelling, psychological drama . . . [Hall] has a golden touch.' The Economist
'A writer of show-stopping genius.' Guardian
'So vivid, so visceral, so vital.' Val McDermid
For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home and worked in Idaho at a reservation for wolves. As one of the few experts in her field she is summoned back to England by the eccentric Earl of Annerdale to help with his plan for re-wilding wolves on his estate in the Lake District. As Rachel attempts a gradual reconciliation with her estranged family, her work with the Earl begins to generate public outrage and the threat of sabotage. Set against a backdrop of Scottish independence and tumultuous power struggles both locally and nationally, The Wolf Border is a novel steeped in wilderness and wildness, both animal and human.
'A graceful, visceral, utterly compelling read.' Sunday Express magazine
'A thrilling tale of politics and power . . . Compulsively absorbing and masterfully plotted, it confirms Hall as one of our finest fiction writers.' Daily Mail
'A compelling, psychological drama . . . [Hall] has a golden touch.' The Economist
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Alan R Macdonald
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November 9, 2016
Reintroduction of wolves to Cumbria in 2014 at time of Scottish Referendum, a psychological drama.Astonishing book.
Henry Deacon
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April 26, 2016
Was thoroughly entertaining and intelligently written.
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About the author
Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. She is the prize-winning author of four novels - Haweswater, The Electric Michelangelo, The Carhullan Army and How to Paint a Dead Man - as well as The Beautiful Indifference, a collection of short stories. The first story in the collection, 'Butchers Perfume', was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, a prize she won in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox'.
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