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<p><i>"...Kay Sexton writes with loving clarity about the natural world,and is astute about the complexity and cost of our negotiations with it....</i><i>...absorbing and highly readable...."</i><b>Hilary Mantel</b>, author of <i>Wolf Hall</i> and <i>Bring Up The Bodies</i></p><p>It was not simply the job of her life; it was her life ...</p><p>Claire Benson has been wrongfully expelled from an Animal Activist Group and she is furious, until she discovers she's been singled out for more significant work. A task that demands all her skill, training and nerve.</p><p>The Project aims to re-introduce wolves to their natural environment. If all goes to plan, a pack will be secretly released in the Scottish Highlands and Claire will be their Gatekeeper - safeguarding their transition from exiles to natives. The task is covert and perilous, requiring her to understand the land, its people and - above all - the true nature of these extraordinary beasts.</p><p>Kay Sexton's remarkable, revelatory, book, shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize, is the story of one woman's fight to restore nature in the face of prejudice and fear.</p>