The Land of Painted Caves
Paperback Published on: 01/03/2012
Price: £10.99
Synopsis
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 25,000 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
Publisher information
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- ISBN: 9780340824276
- Number of pages: 800
- Dimensions: 201 x 172 x 39 mm
- Weight: 554g
- Languages: English
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Slower paced than previous books in the series
This latest book in the series leaves behind the sweeping adventures of previous novels and tells instead of mature people doing mostly grown-up things. Th... READ MORE
love it
yes it was a long time coming. Some of it was repeated but if you had not read any of the previous books you would find it hard to follow otherwise. I did ... READ MORE
Great Series
I really hope this is not the last in the series!!! I have enjoyed the beautifully described lives of Ayla and Jondalar and there journey through ancient l... READ MORE
Unputdownable!
As usual Jean Auel does not let her fans down. I pre-ordered this and when it arrived I put the 'phone off the hook, turned off the mobile and just wallowe... READ MORE
You should not review before reading!
It is outrageous that people have given this 5 stars before they have read it - how can that be a valid review? If I could have given it nought, I would ha... READ MORE
A poor ending to a great series.
This reads more like a guide to prehistoric cave paintings than a novel. It's repetitious and very dull. A real let down as the last book of the series. It... READ MORE
Wanted to love this...
400 pages into this book and I am rapidly losing the will to live...
I've adored all the others in the series, and was really looking forward to reading th... READ MORE
Can I rate this as a minus 5 please?
I have been a fan of this series for years but I greatly wish this had never been published. I have NEVER been so disappointed by a book in my life.
3/4 of... READ MORE
Nil Point
I, like so many others, really looked forward to reading the last in the series. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT. Constant repetition of Ayla's titles, all cave pain... READ MORE
Eagerly awaited
It seems an age since the last book in this series was published, and it took a little while to settle back into the flow of the story. However, the wait w... READ MORE
Oh my goodness
How long have we waited for this final book in the series. Was beginning to think that she had given up! Now I will have to read the other books, it's so m... READ MORE
Disappointing
I was so looking forward to reading this book, but it was such a disappointment. None of the characters had any substance to them, and the daughter espical... READ MORE
Oh dear
Although the ending was a satisfactory conclusion to Ayla's story, what a tedious route to arrive there! I was left with the feeling that this would have b... READ MORE
The Land of Painted Caves
After waiting soooo!! long for this final version from Jean M. Auel I was not disappointed. A fantastic read that put me in the middle of the "family" once... READ MORE
A flop.
A long wait for a very disappointing book. And what an anticlimactic ending, when Ayla convinces the Zelandonii ny means of a vision that pregnancy does no... READ MORE
A welcome addition to the collection
Although up to the usual standard of Jean Auel, this book was somewhat slower in pace than we have been accustomed to in her writing. I enjoyed meeting the... READ MORE
TITLE THAT PROMISES CONTINUING STORY.
I KNOW WITHOUT READING THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE AN "U N-PUT-DOWNABLE" LIKE ALL HER OTHER BOOKS
CAN'T WAIT TO GET MY HANDS ON IT..............
The Land of Painted Caves
Having waited for many years for this the final book in the series I can only say it's appalling, atrocious, awful, page after page of cut and paste stuff ... READ MORE
Read with anticipation
After reading the first five books and not being able to put any of them down, I was eagerly anticipating the final book. I find Jean Auel's writing style ... READ MORE
Sadly disappointed
I was so excited, after waiting for a prolonged period, to get this book - but I agree with 'hazlac' and the next 'one star'. The first 500 hundres pages w... READ MORE
Expected a better ending!!
I've loved the whole series of the earth children and was so excited to hear of the 'final chapter' in the series. I only hope it isn't....despite the tame... READ MORE
The Land of the Painted Caves
Very Disapointing:
I am in complete agreement with The Critic, Bushface, LH84, Jilljones, Hazlac and Snowbryneich.
This was such a promising set of books... READ MORE
Disappointing.
I was really looking forward to the conclusion of this series but unfortunately 'The Land Of Painted Caves' was a big disappointment. The book is incredibl... READ MORE
wow
hi it's about time we had the last book in the Ayla stories.
If this one is as good as all the rest, I won't be able to stop reading it until I get to the ... READ MORE
The Land iof Painted CAves
As with all her books Jean Auel once again "hits the spot" with this one. Grab factor of 11 out of 10. Shame it is the last one of the series.
ANOTHER BRILLIANT BOOK.......
AN ALMOST PERFECT ENDING TO A STORY THAT COULD GO ON FOREVER ... IT WAS WORTH WAITING FOR, ALTHOUGH IT SEEMED WE HAD TO WAIT FOR A LIFETIME..
ANY CHANCE OF... READ MORE
Another Amazing Read!
This is the 6th and final book in the Earth Children's Series. If you have been part of Ayla's journey from the beginning, it is the natural conclusion to... READ MORE