Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2006.
An extraordinarily good book. At its centre it’s a murder mystery but just putting it in one ‘genre’ simply doesn’t do it justice, for a first novel it’s incredibly accomplished. The setting is Canada in the winter of 1867, Scottish settlers rub up against French trappers and they all distrust and abuse the resident Indian tribes. A violent murder and a missing son puts the community of Dove River in the spot light and tests the morals and relationships of everyone involved. Definitely worth buying the hardback. However the paperback is now out - click here for more information
Costa Book Awards 2006 Judges' comment: "The Tenderness of Wolves is atmospheric, gripping and compassionate and perfectly evokes the snowy wastes of nineteenth-century Canada."
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