The Wolf Border

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Book at Bedtime: Sarah Hall - The Wolf Border: Episode 6

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Sarah Hall - The Wolf Border

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

The wolves are ready for their release into the Earl's estate. Meanwhile Rachel is about to give birth. Read by Hattie Morahan.

The wolves are ready for their release into the enclosure on the Earl's estate and Rachel is about to give birth.

Sarah Hall's novel is a compelling story about personal, political and environmental boundaries: about power, land, family and love. At its heart is Rachel Caine, tough, defensive, an expert on wolves, and long estranged from her home county of Cumbria.  Now she has returned to supervise a project to re-introduce wolves to England for the first time in 500 years.  Like the wolves she protects and champions, she has been wary of human connections.

Set against the dramatic and artfully evoked backdrop of the Lakeland fells, The Wolf Border explores issues of vested power and re-wilding, and of family and motherhood.
 
Reader: Hattie Morahan

Abridger: 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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