First-time novelist Stef Penney won the 2006 Costa Award (successor to the Whitbread) for this chilly adventure. It is 1867 in Canada's Northern Territory and the Hudson Bay Company's fur trading posts are the going concern. When a murder happens in the tiny settlement of Dove River, it is men from the Company who come to investigate. Woven into this murder is a love story and an avalanche of history.
Readalikes: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje and The Master Butchers Singing Club and Louise Erdrich. --Jenny H.
Readalikes: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje and The Master Butchers Singing Club and Louise Erdrich. --Jenny H.
Request The Tenderness of Wolves from the Saint Paul Public Library.
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