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Sarah Hall's new novel is a compelling story about personal and political borders about power, land, family and love, At its heart is Rachel Caine, tough, untouchable, an expert on wolves, and long estranged from her home county of Cumbria and her fiery mother and lost brother.
Like the wolves she protects and champions, she is wary of humanity, happy in the untamed wilderness,

Set against the dramatic and artfully drawn backdrops of the Lakeland fells and the towering ranges of Idaho, The Wolf Border explores issues of ownership and vested power, of rewilding and of family as Rachel reaches a turning point in her life and learns that choice and change are possible.
Brilliant. Best book I've read inso far, Stay tuned for the full review, Rachel Caine has run Idahos Chief Joseph wolf preserve for nearly a decade, but her roots are in Englands Lake District, Her two worlds unexpectedly collide when an earl asks for her help reintroducing wolves near the Scottish border, As in sitelink The Animals by Christian Kiefer, with which this novel shares some incidentals of plot and setting, the question of what we owe to other creatures is a strong and haunting one.
Alongside the story of the wolves release runs Rachels decision to become a mother,

The twin plot strands the one environmental and the other personal ask what can be salvaged from the past, However, especially in the third or so of the novel, some of the subplots and sidetracks start to take over, A shorter, tighter novel might have maintained a better pace,

See my full review at sitelinkNudge, I was expecting a plot focusing on wolves, needless to say thats not what was delivered, The plot focuses on Rachel, her pregnancy and dysfunctional family along with a myriad of other personal challenges, The wolves aspect serves as a minimal secondary narrative, what was introduced was fascinating only leaving me hankering for much more,

Rachel is a peculiar character intricate, aloof, loner, incredibly private, fiercely independent and a commitment phobic, She possesses a keen eye for observation which creates her interaction with others enlightening, I found her lukewarm in the beginning, came to understand her more in the middle and felt a warmth towards her in the later part of the story.
Her passion and softer side is exposed when she is immersed in the world of her beloved wolves, She grows as a woman managing to slough off her rough untouchable

exterior, her heart softens, shes less rigid,

I must say the pace was lethargic, unbearable at times, Dont expect this to be a fast pace read by any means, the snail wins the race here, Halls fluid graceful prose kept me from calling it quits,

Despite being let down by the summary, Halls stellar writing kept my attention, Her manipulation of language more than compensated for flaws, Vivid depictions of the surrounding areas, wolves were quite stunning,

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Having read and loved sitelinkThe Beautiful Indifference: Stories, a collection of short stories by this author, I was willing to take a chance on this one despite my hesitation.
The subject matter definitely had potential but I read so very little of what is considered 'literary fiction' these days and clearly for good reason,

The concept is interesting: Rachel Caine, a zoologist that grew up in the UK now lives in rural Idaho monitoring wolves, She has been asked to come back to the UK in hopes of hiring her for a project a local Earl has set his sights on: the reintegration wolves to the English countryside.
Interested in how long exactly it had been since wolves were common in England, I did a little research myself, Apparently around, the complete destruction of wolves in England was ordered by the current ruler, Edward I and while there were a few mentions of wolves in subsequent years, most appeared to have been exterminated.
So despite the modern disadvantages, this Earl wants to bring that park of medieval England back to life and he believes Rachel would be the best bet for this project to be a success.
Interesting, but not fascinating enough to capture my complete interest,

Rachel herself was a strange character, seemingly as wild as the wolves she watches, but I struggled with the balance between the topic of the wolves with the overpowering focus on her uninspiring personal life.
Then there was the stereotypical Earl, Pennington, and his determination towards this project that was ultimately left unexplained, Emphasis was constantly placed on the fact that he had money and power and he always got what he want without any real meaning behind his actions, The side characters weren't much better and I would have preferred more of a focus on the wolves themselves, alas despite the assumption that they were they definitely took the back burner of the story even with the clear attempt to parallel their story with Rachel's.
It just didn't work for me,

The prose is lovely, as I knew she was capable of from her short story collection, but being confronted with another literary story where the quotation marks are experiencing a severe shortage is tiresome.
Having to constantly reread passages because I can't determine whether it was something that was actually said out loud or was merely internal dialogue isn't something a reader should have to struggle with.
It's a literary style that I will never be on board with, This is a really good story about the reintroduction of wolves in England and a sister and brother who struggle with issues from a very unorthodox upbringing, The book flows very well and the writing flows so easily with vivid descriptions, Thank you Jill once again,
Lobos cinzentos Fotografia Bernhardt Reiner/Alamy

”O Regresso dos Lobos” é o quinto romance da escritora inglesa Sarah Hall, nascida em, em Carlisle, Cúmbria.

A zoóloga Rachel Caine nasceu em Cúmbria, um condado no norte de Inglaterra que faz fronteira com a Escócia, mas trabalha na reserva Chief Joseph, no Idaho, Estados Unidos da América, na gestão de uma alcateia de lobos.

O Conde Thomas Pennington, um rico aristocrata, detentor de uma extensa propriedade na zona de Annerdale, desafia Rachel Caine a regressar a “casa”, para liderar um controverso e ambicioso projecto de reintrodução do lobo cinzento na Cúmbria.

Rachel Caine é uma mulher inteligente, independente, uma verdadeira líder, que prefere o sexo aos relacionamentos amorosos, que mantém uma relação distante e conflituosa com a sua mãe, Binny, e uma convivência problemática com o seu irmão, Lawrence, e a sua cunhada, Emily que se afastou das disputas familiares e que regressa, decorridos dez anos, para se envolver e liderar um complexo projecto ambiental, a reintrodução de um animal, o lobo cinzento, num processo alvo de alguma contestação pública mas de inúmeros elogios políticos, em que se questiona e avalia os conflitos territoriais entre o animal e o homem, fronteiras ténues e, por vezes, imperceptíveis, mas determinantes para a coexistência “física” e geográfica de duas “espécies”, num tempo moderno.

”O Regresso dos Lobos” é um excelente romance, ambientado às deslumbrantes paisagens da zona de Cúmbria, em que se destacam as admiráveis descrições com que Sarah Hall nos presenteia, com especial relevância para as decorrentes da componente geográfica, ecológica e climatérica, e as que se relacionam com os detalhes das sequências de sexo
sitelink theguardian. com/books/ sobre uma mulher que pretende encontrar respostas para as suas indecisões e para as suas ansiedades um livro feminista, sobre o amor e o sexo, sobre o trabalho, a gravidez e a maternidade as dúvidas, os anseios e as incertezas , mas que se preocupa com a preservação ambiental e animal, com destaque para a investigação e a etologia do comportamento dos lobos, numa interacção entre a natureza e os humanos.

”O Regresso dos Lobos” é um livro profundamente metafórico


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