Once There Were Wolves

Once There Were Wolves
AuthorCharlotte McConaghy
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary novel
PublisherHamish Hamilton
Publication date3 August 2021
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages258 pp.
Awards2022 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction, winner; 2022 Davitt Award – Best Adult Novel, winner
ISBN9781761043222

Once There Were Wolves is a 2021 novel by the Australian author Charlotte McConaghy.[1]

It was the winner of the 2022 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction.[2]

Synopsis

Inti is the head of Cairngorms National Park's Wolf Project in Scotland. The project aims to release 14 wolves into the park as a part of their rewilding project. The project is met with opposition from local farmers who worry about their sheep flocks. Then a dead body is discovered and Inti begins to suspect a local policeman of the murder.

Critical reception

Writing in The Newtown Review of Books Ann Skea was impressed with the novel: "Charlotte McConaghy draws the reader into the lives of her characters, and realistically coveys the closeness, secrets, fears and mutual support of a small community where people have grown up together and know each other well...Ecology, climate change and self-sufficiency are casually woven in as underlying themes, but it is the creatures – human and wolf – that are the heart of the story."[3]

See also

Notes

  • Dedication: "For my little one"
  • Epigraph: "One beast and only one howls in the woods by night." - Angela Carter

Publication history

After the novel's initial publication by Hamish Hamilton it was reprinted as follows:

The novel was also translated into Swedish, German, Finnish, Dutch and Danish in 2022, Greek in 2023, and French in 2024.[4]

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  2. ^ a b ""Indie Book Awards - Winners 2022"". Australian Independent Booksellers. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  3. ^ ""CHARLOTTE McCONAGHY Once There Were Wolves. Reviewed by Ann Skea."". The Newtown Review of Books. 16 September 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  4. ^ a b c "Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy". Austlit. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  5. ^ "Davitt Awards 2022 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 29 August 2022. Retrieved 8 September 2025.

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