Charlotte McConaghy
Auteur de Migrations
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Œuvres de Charlotte McConaghy
Fury: Episode 2 (Book One of The Cure) 3 exemplaires
Limerence: Episode 3 (Limerence, Book Three of The Cure) 3 exemplaires
Fury: Episode 3 (Book One of The Cure) 3 exemplaires
Limerence: Episode 1 (Limerence, Book Three of The Cure) 3 exemplaires
Limerence: Episode 2 (Limerence, Book Three of The Cure) 3 exemplaires
Wild Dark Shore 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1988-10-08
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieux de résidence
- Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Études
- Australian Film Television and Radio School (MA - Screenwriting)
- Professions
- screenwriter
novelist
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 20
- Membres
- 2,410
- Popularité
- #10,643
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 134
- ISBN
- 82
- Langues
- 8
- Favoris
- 1
Inti, a biologist who moves to the rural highlands of Scotland for work, is devoted to conservation and wolves and her twin sister, Aggie. Inti doesn’t trust easily, believing the worst in human nature, and the Scottish locals and sheep farmers are equally distrusting of Inti—an outsider who they feel is threatening their livelihood and community as she works to fight climate change by rewilding wolves in their highlands. This conflict between Inti and the locals steadily builds, especially when one of the locals mysteriously disappears after Inti antagonizes this man. Through the mystery of Stuart’s disappearance, the flashback and flash forward of Inti’s life across Australian cityscapes and Canadian forests and Scottish highlands, we learn about how and why Inti has changed from the gentle, “need to toughen up” optimist to the aggressive, closed-off skeptic. And she learns to respond to a community she defensively made an enemy because “‘when you open your heart to rewilding a landscape, the truth is, you’re opening your heart to rewilding yourself’” (189).
From beginning to end, the book seemed to have two speeds—either quick-paced, violent action or long, meandering descriptions—so that by the end of this story, I honestly felt conflicted, unsure of my feelings. So much happens in the last third of the book. It felt like emotional whiplash: I was constantly questioning the narrator’s state of mind (slipping in and out of consciousness, dreamlands, hallucinations, and mirror-synesthesia) and questioning the author’s choices in the resolution. Still, I’m unsure. Or, more accurately, I’d say: it’s complicated. But, still, this is a worthwhile read—one about cruelty and gentleness, empathy and compassion, trust and forgiveness—maybe even because of all the gritty complications.
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