This is a book set near here. In the plot, a young woman from Cumbria
has been working as an ecologist in America helping to preserve wolves.
Meanwhile a Cumbrian aristocrat wants to reintroduce wolves over here. He persuades
her to come and run the project for him. He is friends with the Prime Minister
who is campaigning against Scottish independence. So you’ve got the wolves and
the border. But is Finland, the wolf border started as a literal thing: there
are wolves north of this line, yet it came to mean something like the edge of
sanity. So this is a novel set on the edge of what it means to be human. How
are we different from the animals? And to cap it all, a pupil on a school bus between
Wigton and Aspatria sees a wolf. That’s us! Keep your eyes peeled.
Borrow it
from the school library and read it. I dare you.
