The Sounder by Jade Angeles Fitton

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"Extinction had sounded so irrevocable, but watching them alive in their old habitat felt like a beginning, a window into a countryside that was less complacent, in which there was space for - this." Ruby has returned home to Devon but is viewed by some in the rural community as an incomer. Tensions rise when she's tasked with culling a sounder of wild boar suspected of having been illegally released. Writer Jade Angeles Fitton is a writer and journalist who lives in Devon. Her first book Hermit was published in 2023 Reader: Kirsty Cox Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Maggie Ayre