num_pages: 400
description: For years Kitty Hawke has lived alone on Wolfe Island witness to the islands erosion and clinging to the ghosts of her past. Her work as a sculptor and her wolfdog Girl are enough. News of mainland turmoil is as distant as myth until refugees from that world arrive: her granddaughter Cat and Luis and Alejandra a brother and sister escaping persecution. When threats from the mainland draw closer they are forced to flee for their lives. They travel north through winter a journey during which Kitty must decide what she will do to protect the people she loves.Part western part lament for a disappearing world Wolfe Island (set off the northeast coast of the US) is a transporting novel that explores connection and isolation and the ways lives and families shatter and are remade.
language: English
title: Wolfe Island
publisher: Picador Australia