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only after childhood ended was he aware of the price the adults had paid for life in this most romantic of settings.


Navigating family tensions and the trials of growing up, Will describes the close-knit community of North Yorkshire and his family's place within it: the shepherd probing the head-high snowdrifts for his flock;

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A love letter to a family defined by a desire to make beauty and a gift for telling stories. The Wolf Pit has more quietly desperate heroism than any book I’ve ever read. -- Brian Morton * Sunday Herald *
Persuasive, atmospheric writing. A love letter to a past world * Sunday Times *
Bittersweet * The Times *
The book takes on an existential desire to understand who we really are * Spectator *

The Wolf Pit

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    A Paperback by Will Cohu

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 7 April 2013
      ISBN-13 9780099542353
      978-0099542353
      ISBN-10 0099542358
      Also in:
      Biography Biography: adventurers and explorers Natural History Nature and the natural world: general interest Politics, Philosophy & Society Rural communities / rural life

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      only after childhood ended was he aware of the price the adults had paid for life in this most romantic of settings.


      Navigating family tensions and the trials of growing up, Will describes the close-knit community of North Yorkshire and his family's place within it: the shepherd probing the head-high snowdrifts for his flock;

      Trade Review
      A love letter to a family defined by a desire to make beauty and a gift for telling stories. The Wolf Pit has more quietly desperate heroism than any book I’ve ever read. -- Brian Morton * Sunday Herald *
      Persuasive, atmospheric writing. A love letter to a past world * Sunday Times *
      Bittersweet * The Times *
      The book takes on an existential desire to understand who we really are * Spectator *

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