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A review by leannep
Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
4.0
Kitty Hawke is an artist, mother, grandmother, survivor. Her sculptures 'the watermen' guard the island where she lives alone, with her wolfing Girl. The water is rising, the weather is wild, the land and buildings disappearing.
One day her granddaughter and her friends turn up. They create a sort of family. They are on the run. The world is collapsing.
Mother /daughter/ granddaughter relationships feature. As do mother/son/murderer /prisoner relationships.
The journey in the later part of the book was engaging. The violent vigilantes concerning. So many guns. So many deaths, and different griefs. It is important to have the "long view of life" and to know "There is never an end, only way points between the past and the future".
I'm happy with this book being described as a parable, or as a literary fable. There is much to think about in our current world, and much to learn.
One day her granddaughter and her friends turn up. They create a sort of family. They are on the run. The world is collapsing.
Mother /daughter/ granddaughter relationships feature. As do mother/son/murderer /prisoner relationships.
The journey in the later part of the book was engaging. The violent vigilantes concerning. So many guns. So many deaths, and different griefs. It is important to have the "long view of life" and to know "There is never an end, only way points between the past and the future".
I'm happy with this book being described as a parable, or as a literary fable. There is much to think about in our current world, and much to learn.