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The Inheritors

When the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea. But this year strange things were happening, terrifying things that had never happened before. Inexplicable sounds and smells; new, unimaginable creatures half glimpsed through the leaves. What the people didn't, and perhaps never would, know, was that the day of their people was already over.

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From the author of Lord of the Flies, The Inheritorsis a startling recreation of the lost world of the Neanderthals, and a frightening vision of the beginning of a new age.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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