Jennifer Byrne REVIEWS

JENNIFER BYRNE IS THE HOST OF THE BOOK CLUB ON ABC1 TV.

REVIEWS BY KATIE EKBERG

THE WOLF BORDER BY SARAH HALL, FABER & FABER. Rachel Caine is living on remote Idaho reservation, studying and tracking native wolves, when an English peer approaches her out of the blue with an intriguing job offer. He wants to breed up his own pack of wolves, a species extinct for centuries in Britain, and release them onto his estates in her native Cumbria, near the Scottish border. Though mistrustful of his motives, and nervous about reconnecting with the family she left behind (an estranged brother, difficult mother now in a nursing home) Rachel returns home, pregnant, to start “re-wilding”. Books about the natural world are on a roll at the moment – Helen Macdonald’s stunning H is for Hawk, for instance. Sarah Hall is one of the best, melding…

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The Australian Women's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2015

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