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Circle of Days

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What to expect

'Monumentally epic . . . a superb novel' LEE CHILD

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

A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES IN THE IMPOSSIBLE

A MONUMENT THAT WILL DEFINE A CIVILIZATION

In the high summer heat, Joia watches the Midsummer ceremony that signals the start of a new year, enthralled. She dreams of a miraculous new monument, raised from the biggest stones in the world. It is a vision of a great circle, assembled by the divided tribes of the Great Plain. Helped by Seft, a talented miner, it will 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.

ONE OF THE GREATEST MYSTERIES OF OUR AGE

IMAGINED BY ONE OF THE GREATEST STORYTELLERS OF OUR TIME

'Always entertaining' THE TIMES
'Historical mastery' DAILY MIRROR
'As rich as it is thrilling' I PAPER

Critics Review

There could be no better match between author and subject than Ken Follett writing about Stonehenge. His trademark blend of the intensely human and the monumentally epic works to perfection here - a superb novel
Lee Child
A tour de force - Follett so brilliantly and engagingly immerses us in a world and society at the time of the creation of Stonehenge that feels indelibly real. It utterly grips and fascinates, and made me realize that apart from technology, so very little has changed between then and now in how we behave
Peter James
A hugely enjoyable family saga. Books like this are a sort of anti-social media: just a reader turning pages, lost in a different world. Follett is one of the great storytellers
Conn Iggulden
A must-read, wonderful saga for anyone who's ever gazed at Stonehenge in awe. The monument and the people that built it, brought to life like never before
Chris Hadfield
One of the great, bestselling novelists
Daily Telegraph
Follett is a master
The Washington Post
Ken Follett is unquestionably a master storyteller but his unique skill is animating the ordinary lives that history too often fails to record. In Circle of Days, like Pillars of the Earth he breathes life into iconic stone, to fill history's silences with living breathing people
Mariella Frostrup
Another fabulous tale from the master storyteller, packed with passion, heartache and compelling historical detail. No-one does it better
Ed Balls
Grand in scope but earthy in tone, this is historical fiction as rich as it is thrilling
The i Paper
Follett brings to rich and vibrant life this epic family saga . . . An addictive tale . . . Thrilling
The Sunday Post
Follett's origin story of Stonehenge is always entertaining
The Times
Thrilling
The Courier
Nobody writes big blockbuster historical stories quite like Follett . . . A fascinating subject that comes to life in the usual Follett way, through the characters he creates that leap off the page
Peterborough Telegraph
[A] giant of the literary world
Hello! magazine
Follett's gift for making his fiction seem tantalisingly authentic, and a plot that takes in murders, a famine, tribal warfare, and a drought, the distant past has never felt so viscerally alive
Press Association

User Reviews

Book 4.0
Narration 5.0
Author Ken Follett
Narrator Richard Armitage
Duration 19 hours and 12 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529442373
Format Audiobook
Publisher Quercus
Genre Historical adventure fiction, Historical fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE
Rating
4.0 (1 review)
Narration
5.0 (1 review)

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