Knight, Richard John

Finn has always heard that the Finers, a family living alone at the tip of Clee Point, are to be avoided because of some long-ago incident that no one will discuss, but when Davey Finer saves Finn's life, he begins to learn more and, in defiance of his parents, befriend them.

In an isolated mountain village, nine-year-old Maria and her grandfather rescue and raise a wolf cub, Shadow, and when Shadow eventually leaves to join his own kind, a stranger's words help Maria to accept that this is for the best.