The Tenderness of Wolves (Paperback) by Stef Penney(Author)
Debut novelist Stef Penney won the Costa Book of the Year award - formerly the Whitbread Prize - despite being too scared to research the book on site. . Flying to Canada was out of the question for the agorophobic writer. On an isolated settlement of Canada’s Dove River in 1867, a man is murdered and a boy disappears.Searchers set out pursuing tracks across a desolate landscape variously seeking a murderer, a son, two missing sisters, a forgotten Native culture, and a fortune in stolen furs. In an astonishingly assured debut, Stef Penney weaves adventure, suspense, revelation, and humour into a gripping historical tale, an exhilarating thriller, a keen murder mystery, and ultimately, with the sheer scope and quality of her storytelling, one of the best books of the year.
£9.89 http://www.amazon.co.uk Publisher: Quercus; New Ed edition (8 Feb 2007)
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