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29 April 2015updated 04 May 2015 11:47am

Where the wild things are: fiction that proves we’re closer to nature than we think

Melissa Harrison's At Hawthorn Time and Sarah Hall's The Wolf Border take us to the brink of the anthropocene.

By Erica Wagner

(Photo By Civil savages? Rachel Caineâ?Ts â?ogod of all dogsâ??. Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

The Wolf Border
Sarah Hall
Faber & Faber, 435pp, £17.99

At Hawthorn Time
Melissa Harrison
Bloomsbury Circus, 279pp, £16.99

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