The Wolf Border

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Book at Bedtime: Sarah Hall - The Wolf Border: Episode 1

Episode 1

Sarah Hall - The Wolf Border

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Hattie Morahan reads Sarah Hall's compelling new novel about power, love and family.

4 Extra Debut. Why is an eccentric Earl planning to reintroduce wolves to Cumbria? Hattie Morahan reads this tale of family, power and love.

Sarah Hall's 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 re-wilding and of family as Rachel reaches a turning point in her life and learns that choice and change are possible.

In this opening episode:  The offer of a job from an eccentric Earl, whose plan is to reintroduce the Grey Wolf to England coincides with the chance to see her dying mother but is that enough to lure Rachel home?
 
Reader:  Hattie Morahan

Abridged in ten parts by Sally Marmion.

Producer: Di Speirs

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2015.

Book at Bedtime: Sarah Hall - The Wolf Border

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Sarah Hall's compelling novel about wilderness, family, power and love.

Sarah Hall's compelling novel about wilderness, family, power and love. Read by Hattie Morahan

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