Before Torak's father dies, he tells Torak to swear an oath to head north and find the Mountain of the World Spirit, and ask the World Spirit to help destroy the bear before it eliminates all life in the Forest. When Torak is 12 summers old, his father, Fa, is killed by a bear, believed to be possessed by a demon. Torak and his father, of Wolf Clan, live alone in the Forest as outcasts. In the pre-agricultural Europe set six thousand years ago, after the end of the last ice age, the hunter-gatherers of the Forest live in clans. Added to which, it explores a world that was virtually unknown to us with real insight and authority - Anthony Horowitz

It has the three qualities of a classic children's book. Wolf Brother gripped me from the very first page. The vivid prose leaps off the page - The TimesĪn utterly gripping Bronze Age quest, written with compelling economy and detail - New Statesman The kind of story you dream of reading and all too rarely find. The Moon of Red Willow is fast approaching: and soon Torak-and only Torak-must face a foe he can neither outrun nor outwit a foe who stalks him as silently as breath. Through the whispering spruce trees comes an evil more terrible than any clan can imagine, let alone defeat. But starvation isn't the only thing in the Forest to fear. His only chance of survival is his skill as a hunter. Now his father lies dead: slaughtered by a demon bear. wounded, terrified and on the run.Īn outcast like his father, he has avoided all contact with the clans - until now.

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