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The last Neanderthal : a novel / Claire Cameron.
"40,000 years in the past, the last family of Neanderthals roams the earth. After a crushingly hard winter, their numbers are low, but Girl, the oldest daughter, is just coming of age and her family is determined to travel to the annual meeting place and find Girl a mate. However, through hunting accidents, animal attacks, old age, and disease, their numbers dwindle until Girl is left alone to care for Runt, a foundling of unknown origin. As Girl and Runt face starvation in the coming winter storms, Girl realizes she has one final chance to save her people, even if it means sacrificing a part of herself. In the modern day, archaeologist Rosamund Gale works well into her pregnancy, racing to excavate newly found artifacts Neanderthal before her baby comes. Linked over the millennia by their shared experience of early motherhood, both stories examine the often taboo corners of women's lives."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385686785 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0385686781 (hardback)
- Physical Description: x, 277 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
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| Subject: | Neanderthals > Fiction. Survival > Fiction. Archaeologists > Fiction. Motherhood > Fiction. Prehistoric peoples > Fiction. Women archaeologists > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Historical fiction. |
| Topic Heading: | Canadian fiction. |
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- 20 of 23 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 3 of 4 copies available at Sechelt/Gibsons.
- 3 of 4 copies available at Sechelt Public Library. (Show preferred library)
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- 1 current hold with 23 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Sechelt Public Library | BkClub F CAME (Text) | 33260000416793 | Book Club Sets | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Sechelt Public Library | BkClub F CAME (Text) | 33260000418013 | Book Club Sets | Available | - | |
| Sechelt Public Library | BkClub F CAME (Text) | 33260000418021 | Book Club Sets | Available | - | |
| Sechelt Public Library | BkClub F CAME (Text) | 33260000499732 | Book Club Sets | Checked out | 2024-05-14 |
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**Finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
**Winner of the 2018 Evergreen Award
**National Bestseller
**A National Post Best Book of 2017
From the bestselling author of The Bear, the enthralling story of two women separated by millennia, but linked by an epic journey that will transform them both
40,000 years in the past, the last family of Neanderthals roams the earth. After a crushingly hard winter, their numbers are low, but Girl, the oldest daughter, is just coming of age and her family is determined to travel to the annual meeting place and find her a mate.
But the unforgiving landscape takes its toll, and Girl is left alone to care for Runt, a foundling of unknown origin. As Girl and Runt face the coming winter storms, Girl realizes she has one final chance to save her people, even if it means sacrificing part of herself.
In the modern day, archaeologist Rosamund Gale works well into her pregnancy, racing to excavate newly found Neanderthal artifacts before her baby comes. Linked across the ages by the shared experience of early motherhood, both stories examine the often taboo corners of women's lives.
Haunting, suspenseful, and profoundly moving, The Last Neanderthal asks us to reconsider all we think we know about what it means to be human.
