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The Tenderness of Wolves
Stef Penney
- Abridged
Narrator: Siobhan Redmond
Length: 5 hours and 26 min.
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Winner of the Theaksons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year, 2008.
Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Newcomer of the Year, 2008.
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year, 2006.
Shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award, 2007.
Canada, 1867: As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a woman steels herself for the journey of a lifetime.
A man has been brutally murdered, and her 17-year-old son has disappeared. The violence has re-opened old wounds and inflamed deep-running tensions in the frontier township: some want to solve the crime; others seek only to exploit it.
To clear her son's name, she has no choice but to follow the tracks from the dead man's cabin and head north into the forest and the desolate landscape that lies beyond it.
© Stef Penney; (P)2007 Quercus Publishing
Critics Reviews
"Combining the very best of murder-mystery plotting and a writing style that evokes with the simplest of words the complexity of a character or a feeling, this is an audiobook to lose yourself in." (Kati Nicholl, The Express)
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Review
4/4 registered users found this helpful
A poignant tale and a page turner
22/12/2007
This is a beautifully told story with a gripping plot that unfolds like the best of thrillers. But it's much more than that and also deals with the themes of love,loss and isolation in a moving but not over sentimental way. The author succeeds in the simplest of language to describe the most complex of human emotions and to set the scene so well that my own toes felt almost frozen by her description of the cold.
The narrator has a clear voice and does a good job of distinguishing between most of the characters.
I didn't want to put the iPod down and finished this in one day. I'd strongly recommend to anyone who likes a little suspense, a little love and some very good writing.
Most Recent Reviews
Hauntingly Beautiful
14/11/2008
Of the ten or so Audiobooks I have downloaded this year, this is tied in second place (with Ukranian Tractors!) I loved it so much, I actually went out and bought a hard copy so I could read all about the Norwegians, which brings me to my only complaint about this title: it was abridged. As such, a large part of the back-story was missing. On the up-side though, the narration was hauntingly beautiful, the plot perfect, the location atmospheric, and the characters real and likeable. The very human issues faced by them in this book are ageless and thought-provoking. Fabulous.
would have been better unabridged
10/08/2008
This was a gripping tale but left me with lots of unanswered questions; due, I can't help thinking, to the fact that it was abridged. Hints of things from her childhood, the reason her husband picked her to marry, her name - all left hanging for me to the extent that I am considering buying and reading the book, which kind of misses the point!
