Wildlife
Pan Macmillan, $16.99 pb, 369 pp, 9781742612317
YA Fiction
Wildlife by Fiona Wood
by Emma Hayes •
Fiona Wood’s second novel addresses a theme that is common in Young Adult fiction: the loss of innocence. Wildlife, a cleverly composed coming-of-age novel, introduces the reader to the world of Crowthorne Grammar’s outdoor education campus at Mount Fairweather. Although it revisits the character of Lou from Wood’s début novel, Six Impossible Things (2010), Wildlife is an absorbing, stand-alone book.
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