Wild Geese - Martha Ostenso

Wild Geese caused a sensation when it was first published in 1925. To a generation
bred on sentimental escapist literature, the idea of a heroine as wild as a bronco
and as fiery as a tigress was nothing short of revolutionary. In the character of
Judith Gare, Martha Ostenso had painted so naked and uncompromising a portrait of
human passion and need that it crossed all bounds of propriety and convention.

Today,
Wild Geese is widely recognized as a milestone in the development of modern realist
fiction. Set on the windswept prairies of northern Manitoba, it is a story of love and tyranny, of destruction
and survival, told with vigour and lyric beauty. It is also a poignant evocation
of loneliness, which, like the call of the wild geese, is beyond human warmth, beyond
tragedy, "an endless quest."