This long awaited book arrived today and I am very, very excited indeed! Michelle Paver has been a real inspiration to me as a writer and her work is truly gripping. I defy anyone to read the first book and not be consumed with her characters and the attention to detail in order to create a stone age setting This is the last book in her series The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, and I heard on a podcast that she wept quite a bit when she had finished it, as it was the end of the story for her characters...she would write about them no more. I wondered then what it would be like to write a series of books where you become besotted with the characters you create and travel with them as you create their stories, to then have to bring that to an end, never to write about them again. I am sure JK Rowling felt bereft when she finished her seventh book, as Michelle Paver did at the end of her sixth.Marital discord could be prominent in my household as my hubby is as caught up in the series as I am and seems to think he will get to read it first as he thinks I should re-read the previous book (Oath breaker) as he has done in the last week, knowing that Ghost Hunter was on its way. I am not sure about this as I ordered the book, so we may end up reading it to each other!!!!
Also got my Children's Writers and Artists Yearbook 2010, so will be burying myself in that too!!
