'A great literary masterpiece' A. N. Wilson 'A genius ... a fearless writer who writes with
reckless passion' Margaret Drabble 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.
Complex romantic and humorous 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. 'Wolf Solent is a stupendous and rather glorious book
... as beautiful and strange as an electric storm' V. S. Pritchett
