Needs more description

The story is sweet but very simple and somewhat unfinished (maybe there will be a sequel?) but as it’s so simple it would be lovely for the landscapes to be described in more detail to enable the reader to really picture the world.

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WOW such a good book we loved it

we loved how much info you get without it being to much thank you we loved it so much

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wonderful

so well informed, entertaining and moving. hope this is the beginning of a series!

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A Wonderful Imagining of life in The Ice Age

This is a beautifully read and well thought out story. It builds a world that we can only glimpse through archeology. Alice Roberts has used her knowledge gained through travelling and meeting experts and also people who still live today with some of those ancient survival skills amongst their modern lives. It has and ending that leaves the reader wanting to know what happens next in that bountiful but brutal world. And also thinking about what has changed in our morality as modern humans.

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Absorbing storytelling

A wonderful tail that drew me into another place and time the narrator was very good I love the pronunciation of unfamiliar words and names

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Rewards Aplenty

I was initially quite sceptical about this novel. A book by Professor Alice Roberts with an eye to younger readers? And fiction? The happiness is that my scepticism entirely and quickly melted - like the winter snows in this audio-book and I was fully engaged with the journey of the hunter gathers in the Ice Age. Roberts appears genuinely engaged with the well-drawn characters that populate this story, so much so that you take them to you. Roberts twins the day-to-day demands on these people to kill to live with little sentimentality showing, yet they have characters with deep concern for others; showing a complexity of feelings and thoughts. These are people not cyphers of for a ‘let’s imagine we follow groups of these ancient people as they move along their annual migratory path from seasonal winter to summer living grounds’. Additional depth is added by the presence of an outsider and it more clearly than anything else weaves a sense of humanity in the kinds of things that must have happened some 30,000 years ago. (This thread will reflect on us in the modern world too.) But stop. This is an adventure story that is so well told and it is hard to see how anyone cannot identify with the main characters. There is nothing not to like. And because it is a book about a journey of adventure, there is a momentum that pull’s the listener or reader along. But stop again. This is an adult reviewing his sense of the novel. It is cast as for readers 9 and over. It does not matter. It will work for young people and older people alike. The audio-book is gifted with the skills of performer, Sofia Engstrand. Fresh voiced and sympathetic to the characters she voice-realises she will please so many. From this novel’s dramatic ending, and by what we know from the author’s own mouth, there will be a sequel it is to be hoped that Engstrand will be engaged to bring that to life too. If I have any regrets it is a want for description of scenery. Also, it is my own ignorance in terms of not knowing or being able to visualise the many different plants, including trees that help make this novel so rich. If I was picking my way through the audio book I would have scribbled them down and then looked them up, which I suppose I may do still. Select this novel with confidence.

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It’s really good 🤗

Really good book I recommend 10-16 it’s would be a bit dark and upsetting for younger readers but I loved it it’s really good and I want there to be a number two anyway end of review (age 12)

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Love it!

I have listened to this book many times and I always enjoy it. I love the messages this book shares as well as the fact that I have learned some things I didn’t know about the people that lived long ago

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gave a good insight into Hunter Gatherer tribes

good storyline, finish was abrupt. characters were strong and believable overall agoog listen and enjoyable

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Absolutely spectacular!

This book is so amazing! I love the ancient theme, the names, the general story. You should definitely listen to this book. 👍

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