Circle of Days

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: Richard Armitage

From a bestselling author of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world’s greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge.

A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT
Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Fair, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offer Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers within their herder community.

A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE
Joia, Neen’s sister, is a priestess with a vision and an unmatched ability to lead. As a child, she watches the Midsummer ceremony, enthralled, and dreams of a miraculous new monument, raised from the biggest stones in the world. But trouble is brewing among the hills and woodlands of the Great Plain.

A MONUMENT THAT WILL DEFINE A CIVILIZATION
Joia’s vision of a great stone circle, assembled by the divided tribes of the Plain, will inspire Seft and become their life’s work. But as drought ravages the earth, mistrust grows between the herders, farmers and woodlanders—and an act of savage violence leads to open warfare . . .

Truly ambitious in scope, Circle of Days invites you to join master storyteller Ken Follett in exploring one of the greatest mysteries of our age: Stonehenge.

The descriptions

Excellent and imaginative work I really enjoyed listening to this book. I plan on recommending this book for my book club to read.

What makes us human hasn't change that much in 5000 years.

The history of cognitive development of humanity in the form of nascent mathematics. The credible description of the engineering of the transport
of the giant stones. The historically accurate depiction of the 3 economic and political systems of the late Neolithic period: woodlanders hunter gatherers, shepherds and farmers with the beginning of private property and patriarchy.

Disappointing

Not his best. Story was fine but a little plodding. Not as grand a scope I am used to with Mr. Follett. The author also took great license with supposed cultural mores at the time that, at least to me, would be very unlikely and made them a large part of the narrative.

As perfectly entertaining as ever

Loved every single minute of it! The writing, the performance and the imagined creation of the incredible Stone henge

A Story of Moral Confusion and Unreal People

Beautiful prose, empty philosophy. The Circle of Light replaces the messy truth of human nature with a sanitized morality play—and in doing so, loses the moral power that once made Ken Follett great.