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Wolves in the Lake District get everyone’s pheromones going

A review of The Wolf Border finds Sarah Hall’s wolves far sexier than her humans

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

The Wolf Border Sarah Hall

Faber, pp.448, £17.99

Locate. Stalk. Encounter. Rush. Chase. The pace of Sarah Hall’s fifth novel follows the five stages of a wolf hunt as she imagines a pack of apex predators restored to the British countryside: the thrill of lean, grey flanks streaking through the bracken sending vital adrenalin coursing through an ecosystem grown sluggish.

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