Circle of Days

'Monumentally epic . . . a superb novel' LEE CHILDFrom the master of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world's greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge. A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFTSeft, 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 Rite, and to find Neen, the girl he loves.Her family lives in prosperity and offers Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers, within their herder community. A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLEJoia, 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. A MONUMENT THAT WILL DEFINE A CIVILISATIONJoia's vision of a great stone circle, assembled by the divi