Ken Follett’s new historic fiction is ready to reach on bookshelves quickly!
The creator’s extremely anticipated ebook, Circle of Days, might be launched Sept. 23 from Grand Central Publishing, and PEOPLE can completely reveal the quilt.
Follett’s new launch will have a look at the “deeply human” origins of Stonehenge, an historic landmark in Wiltshire, England, the writer teases.
“From Ken Follett, the grasp of epic fiction, comes a wealthy novel of historic analysis and creativeness, telling the deeply human story of one of many world’s best mysteries: the constructing of Stonehenge,” the ebook description states.
“Seft, a proficient flint miner, walks the Nice Plain within the excessive summer time warmth, to witness the rituals that sign the beginning of a brand new yr,” the official synopsis reads. “He’s there to commerce his stone on the Midsummer Truthful, and to seek out Neen, the lady he loves. Her household reside in prosperity and provide Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers, inside their herder neighborhood.”
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In the meantime, Neen’s sister, Joia, is a “priestess with a imaginative and prescient and an unmatched skill to steer.”
Throughout her youthful years, she watches the Midsummer ceremony earlier than dreaming “of a miraculous new monument, raised from the most important stones on this planet.” Nevertheless, issues start to come up within the Nice Plains’ hills and woodlands.
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“Joia’s imaginative and prescient of a fantastic stone circle, assembled by the divided tribes of the Plain, will encourage Seft and turn into their life’s work,” the ebook description continues. “However as drought ravages the earth, distrust grows between the herders, farmers and woodlanders — and an act of savage violence results in open warfare.”
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Follett’s earlier books embody 1989’s The Pillars of the Earth and its 2007 sequel World With out Finish and the creator has bought over 160 million copies of his books worldwide.
Circle of Days hits cabinets on Sept. 23 and is on the market now for preorder, wherever books are bought.
