‘This fascinating and stimulating story of integrating a full-blooded wolf into the life of a philosophy professor veers between the profound and the hilarious. In turns touching and poignant … this chronicle will make you think deeply about our relationship with domestic animals and about our responsibilities for them’ Roger Fletcher, Morning Star
‘A remarkably touching tale of nature, humanity and the potential for each to transform the other’ James Crabtree, New Humanist
‘An unusual little book … the autobiography of an idea, or rather a set of related ideas, about the relationship between human and non-human animals’ Jonathan Derbyshire, Guardian
‘A powerfully subversive critique of the unexamined assumptions that shape the way most philosophers – along with most people – think about animals and themselves’ John Gray, Literary Review
‘Rowlands’ clarity of thought and his honesty… are what make one’s hitching a ride on this journey a mostly intriguing and seamless ride’ Tom Adair, Scotland on Sunday
‘A meditation on what it means to be lupine and how it reflects the human’ Janice Galloway, Scotsman
‘Nothing short of human existence, survival and our relationship to all other creatures is examined here and it’s all written in a beautifully elegiac way. The heart-strings will be pulled and the mind stimulated’ Zoe Strimpel, City AM
‘The book takes varyingly interesting diversions into philosophical territory… Rowlands does a good job (with the help of Nietzsche) of questioning our attitude towards death’ Keith Ridgway, Daily Telegraph
‘[A] moving and unsettling memoir’ London Review of Books
‘An exceptionally moving saga’ Times Higher Education Supplement