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The Tenderness of Wolves

By: Stef Penney
Narrated by: Adam Sims, Sally Armstrong
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10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION - FEATURES FIRST CHAPTER FROM STEF'S NEW EPIC NOVEL, UNDER A POLE STAR

COSTA AWARD WINNER and WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER. A breathtaking tale of mystery, buried secrets and romance, set in nineteenth century frontier Canada - for fans of THE SNOW CHILD and A PLACE CALLED WINTER.

Canada, 1867. A young murder suspect flees across the snowy wilderness. Tracking him is what passes for the law in this frontier land: trappers, sheriffs, traders and the suspect's own mother, desperate to clear his name. As the party pushes further from civilisation, hidden purposes and old obsessions are revealed. One is seeking long-lost daughters; another a fortune in stolen furs; yet another is chasing rumours of a lost Native American culture. But where survival depends on cooperation, their fragile truce cannot afford to be broken, nor their overriding purpose - to find justice for a murdered man - forgotten.

The Tenderness of Wolves is a must-read historical epic, weaving adventure, suspense and humour into an exhilarating thriller, a panoramic romance and ultimately, one of the books of the last ten years.

©2006 Stef Penney (P)2018 Hachette Audio UK Action & Adventure Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Suspense Thriller & Suspense Wolf

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"Unquestionably atmospheric, evocative and rewarding." (Independent on Sunday)

"A tense and delicately written thriller." (Observer)
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Stef Penney does write a good book. The ones I’ve read have been so varied. This one consists of a story of a murder mystery, set in Canada in the 1860s. There are many passages where you will almost feel the frostbite!

The narration is clever - split into Sally Armstrong reading the first person narrative of Mrs Ross, and Adam Sims reading the third person prose of the other characters.

Some might feel the ending incomplete (don’t worry, you find out whodunnit!) but I thought this was allowing a lot of freedom for a persons imagination to continue and complete each characters story themselves.

Another excellent Stef Penney book

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I did enjoy this book. I normally listen to more contemporary fiction but found the story timeless and intriguing. Well worth listening to, a good plot, good characters and I feel chilly just thinking about it!

Interesting and different

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Unique, complicated, austere, this story describes an entanglement of company men, weary settlers, utopian hopefuls and native men caught up, for a time, together.

unique

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Characters, story and setting all first class, an excellent read. The use of two narrators helps keep up with the plot.

Great characters and plot

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I listened to this as an audio book. I'd been meaning to read this book for ages because of the high praises and good reviews about it. But I was sorely disappointed and found it boring and tedious. There's nothing good I can say about the story, It has no redeeming qualities, it is not interesting, entertaining, gripping, exciting, sad, dangerous, page turningly suspenseful or anything like that. In fact when it ended, I was surprised that it had. It didn't sound like an ending, more like the end of a chapter and then it was going to continue. A complete let down for me I'm sorry to say.

I don't know what all the fuss was about

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