{"id":139267,"date":"2020-04-07T15:46:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T13:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/07\/ice-caves-orcas-and-eating-blubber-how-michelle-paver-returned-to-the-stone-age\/"},"modified":"2020-04-07T15:46:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T13:46:26","slug":"ice-caves-orcas-and-eating-blubber-how-michelle-paver-returned-to-the-stone-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=139267","title":{"rendered":"Ice caves, orcas and eating blubber: how Michelle Paver returned to the stone age"},"content":{"rendered":"

A decade after finishing the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, the author is continuing her bestselling series \u2013 and explains how she found it againWhen Michelle Paver won the Guardian children\u2019s fiction prize in 2010 for the final book in her bestselling Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, she was done with the stone age adventures of the boy Torak, his wolf companion, and the girl Renn. \u201cAs soon as you write that last line and finish the book they are gone,\u201d she told the Guardian at the time, \u201cand they don\u2019t come back.\u201dTen years later, Torak, Renn and Wolf are, in fact, back, both in an upcoming TV adaptation of the first six books and in Paver\u2019s latest novel, Viper\u2019s Daughter. Now Torak is on the trail of Renn, who has disappeared without a word. \u201cTracking was what Torak did best, and even by starlight he found Renn\u2019s three-day-old trail. To his alarm, it didn\u2019t lead towards the valley where the clan was camped, but down to the River Blackthorn where he and Renn kept their canoe. The canoe was gone,\u201d Paver writes, before sending her stone age boy and his wolf on a quest to the far north, where they\u2019ll be hunted by ice bears, and face their most evil enemy yet. It\u2019s wonderful \u2013 sheer escapism, for children and adults alike. Continue reading…
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A decade after finishing the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, the author is continuing her bestselling series \u2013 and explains how she found it againWhen Michelle Paver won the Guardian children\u2019s fiction prize in 2010 for the final book in her bestselling Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, she was done with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}