Book description
p>
In an astonishingly assured debut Stef Penney deftly weaves
adventure, suspense, revelation and humour into a story that is both
panoramic historical romance and exhilarating thriller. Now reissued
in an attractive new livery, The Tenderness of Wolves is one of the
most widely liked and admired novels of the previous decade.
p>
One-by-one the assembled searchers set out from Dove River,
pursuing the tracks across a desolate landscape home only to wild
animals, madmen and fugitives, variously seeking a murderer, a son,
two sisters missing for 17 years, a Native American culture, and a
fortune in stolen furs before the snows settle and cover the tracks of
the past for good.<
1867, Canada: as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement
of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year old boy
disappears. Tracks leaving the dead mans cabin head north towards the
forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence, people are
drawn to the township journalists, Hudsons Bay Company men, trappers,
traders but do they want to solve the crime or exploit it?<
p>
In an astonishingly assured debut Stef Penney deftly weaves
adventure, suspense, revelation and humour into a story that is both
panoramic historical romance and exhilarating thriller. Now reissued
in an attractive new livery, The Tenderness of Wolves is one of the
most widely liked and admired novels of the previous decade.
p>
One-by-one the assembled searchers set out from Dove River,
pursuing the tracks across a desolate landscape home only to wild
animals, madmen and fugitives, variously seeking a murderer, a son,
two sisters missing for 17 years, a Native American culture, and a
fortune in stolen furs before the snows settle and cover the tracks of
the past for good.<
1867, Canada: as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement
of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year old boy
disappears. Tracks leaving the dead mans cabin head north towards the
forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence, people are
drawn to the township journalists, Hudsons Bay Company men, trappers,
traders but do they want to solve the crime or exploit it?<
