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  • Published: 3 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781761044649
  • Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 27 min
  • Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

Once There Were Wolves




**A Journey into the Wild and the Human Heart**


From the author of the international bestseller Migrations comes a pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands

Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen grey wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska.

Inti is not the woman she once was, either, changed by the harm she’s witnessed – inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving, Inti begins to let her guard down, even opening herself up to the possibility of love. But when a farmer is mauled to death, Inti knows where the town will lay blame. Unable to accept her wolves could be responsible, she makes a reckless decision to protect them. But if the wolves didn’t make the kill, then is something more sinister at play?

Once There Were Wolves is the unforgettable story of a woman desperate to save the creatures she loves – if she isn’t consumed by a wild that was once her refuge.

  • Published: 3 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781761044649
  • Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 27 min
  • Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

About the author

Charlotte McConaghy

Charlotte McConaghy is the author of the New York Times Bestseller Once There Were Wolves, winner of the Indie Book Award for Fiction 2022 and a Nautilus Gold Award, and the international bestseller Migrations, a TIME Magazine Best Book of the Year and the Amazon.com Best Fiction Book of the Year for 2020, which is being translated into over twenty languages and adapted for film. She has both a Graduate Degree in Screenwriting and a Masters Degree in Screen Arts, and lives in Sydney, Australia with her partner and son.

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Awards & recognition

Sisters in Crime Davitt Award

Winner  •  2022  •  Adult Crime Novel