Tiger

Polly Clark

**The thrilling new novel by the prize-winning author of Larchfield**

'Passionate remarkable and uplifting novel' Guardian
'Grabbed me by the imagination and carried me into the wild' Laline Paull

Set across two continents Tiger is a sweeping story of survival and redeeming love that plunges the reader into one of the world's last wildernesses with blistering authenticity.

Frieda is a primatologist sensitive and solitary until a violent attack shatters her ordered world. In her new role as a zookeeper she confronts a very different ward: an injured wild tiger.

Deep in the Siberian taiga Tomas a Russian conservationist fears that the natural order has toppled. The king tiger has been killed by poachers and a spectacular tigress now patrols his vast territory as her own.

In a winter of treacherous competition the path of the tigress and her cub crosses with an Udeghe huntress and her daughter. Vengeance must follow and the fates of both tigers and people are transformed.

Learning of her tiger's past offers Frieda the chance of freedom. Faced with the savage forces of nature she must trust to her instinct and like the tiger find a way to live in the world.

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