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Hello and welcome to The Spectator's Book Club podcast. I'm Sam Leith, the literature of The Spectator.

I'm delighted this week to welcome as my guest, Ayelet Gundogoshen,

whose new novel is The Wolf Hunt. Now, Aelette, welcome it. The Wolf Hunt, it's kind of,

well, it's twisty. And I'm concerned that if I sum up the setting, I'm going to give some

unwanted spoilers. So, want to start by asking

you to sort of set out for our listeners, sort of roughly what the set up of the wolf hunt is.

Just to make sure you're aware of the fact that there's nothing more terrifying to an author

than this specific question, right? Oh no. I'm just conscious that sometimes I'll go, like I had an interview with Mick Herron where I said,

well, in this book, this character's not there.

And he went, what?

You've ruined it for everyone.

So I'm conscious of that.

I will say that the setting is, it's an Israeli family relocating to the Silicon Valley.

And the mother really wants to get out of Israel. She wants her child to

grow away from the Israeli, from the Middle East madness. And she's sure that she brought him

somewhere safe. But right at the beginning of the novel, there's a terror attack at a local

synagogue. And the Israeli mother starts to fear that while she wanted her son to be safe and not

in Israel, she just moved him to a different sort of madness, which is the American madness.

She later learns that he was bullied at school by a Muslim black boy.

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