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Circle of Days

by Ken Follett

Stonehenge as a story of shared labor and divided communities

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Stonehenge as a story of shared labor and divided communities

Set on the Great Plain in an ancient society of herders, farmers, and woodlanders, the novel connects Stonehenge’s construction to the lives and ambitions of Seft, a flint miner, and Joia, a priestess who envisions a great stone circle. The Midsummer Fair brings personal hopes into the same landscape as religious ritual and political tension. As drought intensifies mistrust among the tribes, the monument’s creation becomes bound up with the struggle to bring divided communities together. The book uses the mystery of Stonehenge’s origins as the frame for a historical tale about belief, conflict, and collective work.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in fictional accounts of Stonehenge’s origins and ancient history.
  • Readers who enjoy historical novels centered on communities, belief, and social conflict.
  • Readers interested in stories about large shared projects shaped by personal lives.

Themes

Stonehenge and ancient historyCommunity and cooperationBelief and leadershipDrought and conflict

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Book overview

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

From a bestselling author of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world's greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge.

"Superb." --Lee Childs, New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series

A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT
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 lives in prosperity and offer Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers within their herder community.

A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE
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.

A MONUMENT THAT WILL DEFINE A CIVILIZATION
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 all time.
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