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Once There Were Wolves
2021 novel by Australian author Charlotte McConaghy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Once There Were Wolves is a 2021 novel by the Australian author Charlotte McConaghy.[1]
It was the winner of the 2022 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction.[2]
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Synopsis
Inti is the head of Cairngorms National Park's Wolf Project in Scotland. The project aims to release 14 wolves into the park as a part of their rewilding project. The project is met with opposition from local farmers who worry about their sheep flocks. Then a dead body is discovered and Inti begins to suspect a local policeman of the murder.
Critical reception
Writing in The Newtown Review of Books Ann Skea was impressed with the novel: "Charlotte McConaghy draws the reader into the lives of her characters, and realistically coveys the closeness, secrets, fears and mutual support of a small community where people have grown up together and know each other well...Ecology, climate change and self-sufficiency are casually woven in as underlying themes, but it is the creatures – human and wolf – that are the heart of the story."[3]
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Notes
- Dedication: "For my little one"
- Epigraph: "One beast and only one howls in the woods by night." - Angela Carter
Publication history
After the novel's initial publication by Hamish Hamilton it was reprinted as follows:
- 2021 Flatiron Books, USA[4]
- 2022 Chatto and Windus, UK[4]
The novel was also translated into Swedish, German, Finnish, Dutch and Danish in 2022, Greek in 2023, and French in 2024.[4]
Awards
- 2022 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction, winner[2]
- 2022 Davitt Award – Best Adult Novel, winner[5]
References
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