The Shelters of Stone

Jean M. Auel

Ayla, the Cro-Magnon cavewoman (who lost her family in an earthquake, and raised by Neanderthal people who called themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear), is back after a twelve year absence.  Jean Auel's long-awaited fifth novel, The Shelters of Stone will be available April 30th.  

In this 5th book of the Earth's Children series, a pregnant Ayla will meet Jondalar's tribe, the Zelandonii, and his family.  And in true, Auel style, the reader will be thrust into the Pleistocene period detail which Jean Auel weaves into her stories so masterfully.  The setting and the lives of peoples in that era have been carefully researched.  

Both new and old readers are scrambling to reread the first four books so they'll be ready for this one.  (You remember, of course, that Ayla rescued Jondalar from her pet lion, Baby).  It will be a pleasure to go back to the Ice Age, and live again in Ayla's world.  

New to Jean Auel?  Want to catch up?  Read the books in order starting with The Clan of the Cave Bear, published in 1980; followed by The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters and The Plains of Passage.

Available everywhere  

Hardcover.  $28.95.  #0609610597.  Crown Publishers

Now available in paperback, too.