Kingdomtide

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEThe best novel I¿ve read in a long time¿ Roddy DoyleThe lives of two women ¿ the sole survivor of an airplane crash and the troubled park ranger who leads the rescue mission to find her ¿ intersect in a gripping debut novel of second thoughts and second chancesI no longer pass judgment on any man nor woman. People are people, and I do not believe there is much more to be said on the matter. Twenty years ago I might have been of a different mind about that, but I was a different Cloris Waldrip back then. I might have gone on being that same Cloris Waldrip, the one I had been for seventy-two years, had I not fallen out of the sky in that little airplane on Sunday, August 31, 1986. It does amaze that a woman can reach the tail end of her life and find that she hardly knows herself at all.When seventy-two-year-old Cloris Waldrip finds herself lost and alone in the unforgiving wilderness of the Montana mountains, with only a bible, a sturdy pair of