3.5 stars* 
 Book synopsis: 
 For Linda, isolation and lonelyness are all she knows during her adolescent years. She finds an outlet with Mr Grierson, the new history teacher, and the scandal that breaks out when child pornography is found in his possession. And when the new neighbours across the lake suddenly arrive seemingly on vacation, Linda finds new people to obsess over. She becomes involved with the family helping the young mother, Patra with her four-year-old son, Paul as the nanny in a nightmare of a story where science and belief play a deadly game. 
 When I first heard of History of Wolves it was because of its place in the Man Booker longlist and, concequently, I had no idea of what the story was about. A scroll through Goodreads gave me some basic first information: a debut novel by an author with a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing which sounds promising, categorised as young adult and short in length. With that information in mind I dove into a story that, from the first page, bargains a haunting plot. 
 Later, I could get that drizzle feeling just about any time I saw a kid on a swing. The hopelessness of it--the forward excitement, the midflight return. The futile belief that the next time around, the next flight forward, you wouldn't get dragged back again. You wouldn't have to start over, and over. 
 It often is the case as adults that we look back in our adolescent years when we were 14 or 15 years old, with nostalgia and a feeling of sadness for the careless days of our past. read the rest of this review at My Bookshelf Dialogues