The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
Rachel Caine has been separated from her family for almost ten years due to family conflicts and her employment as a wolf monitor on an Idaho reservation. She is now, however, back in the peat and soggy light of the Lake District after being summoned by the eccentric Earl of Annerdale and his contentious plan to return the Grey Wolf to the English countryside.
While Rachel must deal with contemporary concessions to health and safety, public outcry, and political gain, the earl’s project harkens back to an antiquated idyll of untamed British wilderness. The return of the Grey after hundreds of years also coincides with her own regeneration: impending motherhood, and reconciliation with her estranged family.
The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
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The Wolf Border explores the essential characteristics of wildness and wilderness, both in terms of animals and people. It aims to comprehend human obsessions with sex, love, and conflict as well as the need to understand our existence and the intricate systems that control the most intelligent species on the planet.
Through one woman’s crucial journey toward repentance, Sarah Hall investigates the context of borders—physical, personal, and psychological—in this evocative, symbolically rich, and sensual tapestry of language and place.
Zoologist Rachel Caine, 40, is moving back to her native Cumbria, England, after spending more than ten years working on a wolf recovery project in Idaho. She has been appointed to oversee a wolf re-wilding project on the expansive estate of the mysterious Thomas Pennington, Earl of Annerdale, in the Lake District, not far from the Scottish border. After more than 500 years, he wants to reintroduce the grey wolf to England. He possesses the tools, resources, shrewdness, and land.
After originally rejecting him, Rachel now finds herself in a difficult situation where she must make a mature decision.
There is a new opportunity for Rachel and Lawrence to reconnect after a long period of estrangement. She’s always had a tense connection with their mother Binny, and now that she’s recently passed away, she has some breathing room to go back. They disagreed, but they both had a sex-only mentality toward men and a distant relationship with their families. no love No obligation.
Borders were strict, never to be crossed, and the heart was exiled. She returns home from Idaho after breaking her own natural laws in order to confront her old demons.
The problems are swiftly resolved along the way, and the storyline is shallow and secondary to the topic. Like the people, the action is passive and meanders, yet as the story progresses, the tension thrillingly builds. The latency is intended; this is a book you softly chew, in modest doses, rather than devour.
