The hunter and the wild girl

"The story begins with the crack of splintered boards and bones as a feral girl crashes out of the hut where she's been held against her will and into the scrubland of southern France. Townsfolk chase her to the edge of a deep gorge. She leaps and vanishes into legend-and into the territory of Peyre Rouff, a once-renowned hunter who spends his days fending off his own demons in an abandoned château. Pauline Holdstock sets this absorbing novel in...