Often described as one of the greatest English novels of the twentieth century, John Cowper Powys's epic Wolf Solent centres around the story of a young man returning to his roots in the West Country after ten years in London.
Compelling, romantic and sensuous, it is peopled with memorable characters and filled with vivid, primitive descriptions of landscape. But beyond this powerful evocation of people and place, Wolf Solent is also a meditation on life and death, good and evil, body and soul, combining the earthy and everyday with the spiritual.
