Feral

(Hardback)

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Set in the Canadian forest, Feral is a feminist eco-thriller, a passionate love story and an ode to nature's ferocious beauty.

Raphaelle, a forty-year-old forest warden, has been estranged from her family for many years. She lives with her beloved dog, Coyote, in a caravan deep in the Canadian woods. Fiercely independent and cut off from civilisation, she is always armed, protecting herself from bears, coyotes and lynxes who she in turn defends from sadistic, overzealous poachers.

Soon after Raphaelle discovers animal footprints outside her cabin, her dog vanishes and is eventually found severely injured. And then it is not long before Raphaelle herself becomes the prey of the forest's ultimate predator, which is not animal, but man.

Reviews

'A gripping thriller and an ode to nature's preservation' -- Corinne Renou-Nativel, Croix
'A breath-taking story' -- Latitia Favro, Livres Hebdo

Author Bio

Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba is a writer and environmental activist from Quebec. In the winter of 2013, she left her job, home and family in Montreal, sold all her worldly belongings and moved into a wooden cabin in the remote Kamouraska region.Feral is her second novel.David Homel is a literary translator and an author. He has twice won the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation.