The Wolf Border
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The Wolf Border
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Narrated by:
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Louise Brealey
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Sarah Hall
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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.
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Critic reviews
What did you like most about The Wolf Border?
The narration was excellent. I listen to a lot of audiobooks and it is great to have a narrator who is quite different.What did you like best about this story?
The description of the fells and changing seasons is particularly good with a beautiful use of languageWhat about Louise Brealey’s performance did you like?
Louise has an expressive style of narration without "playing up" the parts too much.Any additional comments?
The reviews of this book are interesting because the narrator disappoints some listeners but gets great reviews from others - I was certainly one of the latter. The audio sample is a good example of the rest of the book. Have a listen... if you like the feel of it, this may be the book for you!The narration made a good story a great audiobook
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Excellent
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Remarkable, original, gripping
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Would you try another book written by Sarah Hall or narrated by Louise Brealey?
I found the subject of this book - the reintroduction of the wolf to Scotland - fascinating. It was not a novel that ties up all loose ends or has a simplistic romance rising to some eventual crescendo, which I quite liked it for. I found the narrator difficult, in that her voice was very much in a minor key and made the novel sound sad and weary.(Sorry Louise). The sex scenes were the most depressing I've ever listened to. Another narrator could have given this story a totally different atmosphere and I would have written a different review. I would try another book written by Sarah Hall, with a different narrator, or failing that, seek one out in print.What other book might you compare The Wolf Border to, and why?
The subject matter would appeal to readers if Nicholas Evans or similar, having the human story set in the world of ecology, endangered wildlife, the wilderness...Nora Roberts also has at least one book (Black Hills?) set in this context.Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Louise Brealey?
Someone much perkier.Interesting story, sombre narrator.
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Good book
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