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The autumn of 1933 is the most beautiful Edie Mather can remember, although the Great War still casts its shadow over the fields and villages around her beloved home, Wych Farm. Constance FitzAllen arrives from London to document fading rural traditions and beliefs. For Edie, who must soon face the unsettling pressures of adulthood, the glamorous and worldly outsider appears to be a godsend. But there is more to the older woman than meets the eye. As harvest time approaches and pressures mount on the entire community, Edie must find a way to trust her instincts and save herself.

An ice age is dawning on Mica’s homeland. The climate is getting colder, there are fewer mammoths to hunt, and the future of her people looks uncertain...Mica’s mind is bursting with new ideas to help them survive the long winter, but the others refuse to listen. Shunned and frustrated, Mica feels as if no one will ever understand her. One night, Mica wakes to hear mysterious voices calling. Their cries fill her with a deep longing that she can’t explain. But who do they belong to? And then she makes a discovery so incredible, so extraordinary, it will challenge everything she thought she knew about her world....