History of Wolves: Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize - Couverture souple

Beautifully written (LITERARY REVIEW)

Compelling ... History of Wolves stands out. (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

think Winter's Bone with less crime and more lyricism.. Fridlund is a fine writer and her work is cut through with moments of sparse beauty. (FINANCIAL TIMES)

one of the most intelligent and poetic novels of the year (NEW STATESMAN)

Fridlund's writing is vivid: her natural descriptions elicit a superb sense of place (DAILY MAIL)

this is a top-notch thriller: suspicion drips like icicles in the thaw (THE TIMES)

Fridlund is a fine writer and her work is cut through with moments of sparse beauty. (FINANCIAL TIMES)

Haunting and compelling (i NEWSPAPER)

Reminds me of Curtis Sittenfeld...so original, a beautiful literary work" (Viv Groskop); "A writer with a great future ahead of her...her prose is exquisite" (Louise Doughty) (BBC RADIO 4: SATURDAY REVIEW)

The chilling plot is only part of the mesmerising power of this assured and striking debut from this American novelist (PRESS ASSOCIATION)

Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.

Already being acclaimed as one of the most exciting new debuts of 2017, Emily Fridlund's HISTORY OF WOLVES is a brilliant coming-of-age novel that will appeal to fans of THE GIRLS and THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
Even a lone wolf wants to belong...

Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda 'Freak', or 'Commie'. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices, whilst the other inhabitants have grown up and moved on.

So when the perfect family - mother, father and their little boy, Paul - move into the cabin across the lake, Linda insinuates her way into the family's orbit. She begins to babysit Paul and feels welcomes, that she finally has a place to belong.

Yet something isn't right. Drawn into secrets she doesn't understand, Linda must make a choice. But how can a girl with no real knowledge of the world understand what the consequences will be?