The Wolf Border – Between The Purple Passages

by Ashley Zimunya

“A Rich Man’s Whimsy”: Approaches to Rewilding in Sarah Hall’s The Wolf Border

In her 2015 novel The Wolf Border Sarah Hall depicts the phenomena of rewilding, a process in conservation biology whereby extirpated species are reintroduced to their original landscapes in an effort to decrease human intervention in nature’s processes. Set against the backdrop of an alternate Scottish independence referendum, Hall explores… Continue reading

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Sarah Hall, The Wolf Border

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If your hobbies also include reading, thinking excessively about everything you read, and learning other people’s thoughts on the things they’ve read recently or a long time ago, you’re very welcome here!

This is where you can find my observations on various texts (a text here being anything that can be ‘read’ and thus including film, theatre, or Taylor Swift lyrics, for example) and what I think can be found between their “purple passages”.

“A Rich Man’s Whimsy”: Approaches to Rewilding in Sarah Hall’s The Wolf Border