num_pages: 440
description: 1867, Canada. On the edge of a vast landscape of snow and ice, a woman, no longer young, steels herself for the journey of a lifetime.As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered and a seventeen-year-old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man's cabin head north towards the forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the township - journalists, Hudson's Bay Company men, trappers, traders - but do they want to solve the crime, or exploit it?One by one, the assembled searchers set out from Dove River, pursuing the tracks across a desolate landscape home only to wild animals, madmen and fugitives, variously seeking a murderer, a son, two sisters missing for seventeen years and a forgotten Native American culture, before the snows settle and cover the tracks of the past for good.In an astonishingly assured debut, Stef Penney deftly weaves adventure, suspense, revelation and humour into an exhilarating thriller, a panoramic historical romance, a keen murder mystery and ultimately, with the sheer scope and quality of her storytelling, one of the books of the year.
language: English
title: The Tenderness Of Wolves
titlecomplete: The Tenderness Of Wolves
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Book Club, Canada, Novels, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 15153
places: Ontario, Canada
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Costa Book Award
category: First Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Costa Book of the Year, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year
publisher: Quercus