The Land of Painted Caves

Jean M. Auel

The triumphant finale in the Earth's Children series Jean M. Auel's internationally bestselling reconstruction of pre-historic life when two kinds of human beings Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon shared the earth.

Ayla Jondalar and their little daughter Jonayla are home. Yet Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni - one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers.

Once again Jean M. Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived thousands of years ago rendering the terrain dwelling places longings beliefs creativity and daily lives of Ice Age Europeans as real to the reader as today's news.

Set 25000 years in the past yet utterly relatable today The Land of Painted Caves is an epic tale of love identity and the struggle to survive rich in detail of language culture myth and ritual.

Praise for Jean M. Auel

'Beautiful exciting imaginative' New York Times

'A major bestseller . . . A remarkable work of imagination' Daily Express

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