Circle of Days [J0175]

2025 - HCDJ Excellent condition. From the master of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world's greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge. Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Fair, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family live in prosperity and offer Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers, within their herder community. Joia, Neen's sister, is a priestess with a vision and an unmatched ability to lead. As a child, she watches the Midsummer ceremony, enthralled, and dreams of a miraculous new monument, raised from the biggest stones in the world. But trouble is brewing among the hills and woodlands of the Great Plain. Joia's vision of a great stone circle, assembled by the divided tribes of the Plain, will inspire Seft and become their life's work. But as drought ravages the earth, mistrust grows between the herders, farmers and woodlanders - and an act of savage violence leads to open warfare . . . Truly ambitious in scope, Circle of Days invites you to join master storyteller Ken Follett in exploring one of the greatest mysteries of our age: Stonehenge.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "I love a good Ken Follett story about things that happened so far in the past. He does an amazing job of bringing the characters to life and really making you care about them. It can get graphic but I think that's a representation of how things were then."; ""; "Ken Follett is an incredible story teller about a different time and era as he personalizes the characters into a standard of known people of our time and age. And this story is absolutely no exception. As in Pillars of the Earth series, we are introduced to another possible time and place and circumstance, away from archeological to agricultural and symbolism."