![]() It is a triumphant continuation of the Earth’s Children® saga that began with The Clan of the Cave Bear. We eagerly await the next episode, in which Ayla invents the wheel. The Shelters of Stone is a sweeping story of love and danger, with all the wonderful detailbased on meticulous research that makes her novels unique. As well as showing the Zelandonii how forming a bond with animals will make their lives better, she introduces them to her "thread-puller" (ie, needle) and instructs them how to make a spear thrower, a nifty device which means they don't have to get close to dangerous animals when hunting. All the way through the series, she has felt like an outsider, which must appeal to the more geeky of Auel's readers.īut Ayla isn't just a pretty face. ![]() The irony is that Ayla doesn't feel at all attractive, because she doesn't resemble the people she grew up with. The Shelters of Stone (Earths Children 5) Hardcover 30 April 2002. Ayla - the tall, slim yet voluptuous blonde - is an ideal of beauty to which we are all supposed to aspire: think supermodel crossed with Raquel Welch in One Million Years BC. ![]() ![]() But what probably best explains Auel's immense popularity is the fact that she, a plump little woman who resembles the Venus of Willendorf in her publicity pictures, has created a heroine whom women can fantasise about being while at the same time identifying with her. ![]()
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