Our March Author of the Month is likely to be your best literary discovery of 2016. Sarah Hall has already been nominated for the Booker Prize (twice) and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, BBC National Short Story Award, Portico Prize for Fiction, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the EM Forster Award. With the outstanding reviews for her fifth novel, THE WOLF BORDER, Sarah has definitely become, as the Mail agreed, ‘one of our finest fiction writers’. THE WOLF BORDER is set in Cumbria, on a private moorland estate owned by an eccentric Earl who is determined to reintroduce the Grey Wolf to England. Rachel Caine is the dynamic expert in charge of the project, recently returned home after a decade in Idaho. Both the wolves and Rachel share an untamed and solitary nature, and while Rachel contends with the public outrage, the political arguments and the complex demands of the regeneration project, she must also grapple with her impending motherhood and a reconciliation with her estranged family. Dealing with wildness, inheritance, hierarchies, sex and love, this is an absorbing, richly constructed novel combining political engagement and natural beauty. Read Sarah's books, and congratulate yourself on finding a particularly rare talent.
Faber have 50 copies of The Wolf Border to give to Mumsnetters: to claim your copy please fill in your details on our book of the month page. We’ll post on the thread when all the copies have gone. If you’re not lucky enough to bag one of those, you can always get a Kindle edition or paperback copy here
We are delighted that Sarah will be joining us to answer your questions about The Wolf Border, her previous award-winning novels and her writing career on Wednesday 23 March, 9-10pm. Please feel free to discuss the book here throughout the month and then come and meet Sarah on the night, and ask her a question or simply tell her what you thought of the book. It’ll be a fascinating chat, very much hope you can make it…
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Come and chat to prizewinning author Sarah Hall about her brilliant new novel THE WOLF BORDER, our March Book of the Month, on 23 March, 9-10pm
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TillyMumsnetBookClub · 15/02/2016 13:36
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