Circle of Days, Ken Follett
Circle of Days, Ken Follett
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Circle of Days

Bestseller

Author: Ken Follett

Narrator: Richard Armitage

Unabridged: 19 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/23/2025


Synopsis

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.

About Ken Follett

Ken Follett, a Welsh novelist has written important bodies of work, such as: Eye of the Needle, The Key to Rebecca, Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, Whiteout, The Century Trilogy. His genre includes thrillers and historical fiction. As a youth he was never allowed to watch television or movies, so out of boredom, he developed a keen interest in reading.

Follett had various jobs on his pathway to being a novelist. He was a general assignment reporter for the Evening News in London. He found that work to be very unchallenging, so he took a position as managing director of Everest Books and began writing fiction as an evening hobby. With the publication of Eye of the Needle in 1978 he became not only internationally known, but also wealthy. Follett’s next project is a third book in his Kingsbridge series. The first two were The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, and is to be released in 2017.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May on September 27, 2025

Reviewing Ken Follett at this point is difficult because I feel like I've said it all before. This is another lovely pastoral historical that follows the everyday lives of characters in Neolithic Britain. The formula works: we've got love stories, historical/technological developments (in this case,......more

Goodreads review by Canadian Jen on October 14, 2025

Follett can always deliver an epic story in mammoth form. This one isn’t about 🦣 mammoths- it is a little later, beginning in 2500 BC. This is a fascinating story of the theory behind the building of Stonehenge. We meet the woodlanders, the herders, the priestesses, the farmers. The cultures of these......more

Goodreads review by Annette on May 23, 2025

Set around 2500 BCE, Circle of Days explores the mysterious story of Stonehenge. Seft comes from a family of flint miners. The work is grueling and his father is harsh. When Seft meets Neen, a girl from a family of herders, he notices something different within her family - love and kindness. When t......more

Goodreads review by Akankshya on September 19, 2025

IMHO, Ken Follett is by far one of the best wielders of the heft that good historical fiction needs (see The Pillars of the Earth). Although, is it technically historical fiction if we're in prehistoric times? I cracked open (metaphorically, on a Kindle) this book with this question in mind, and it......more

Goodreads review by ZumoDeLibros on October 10, 2025

Novela histórica de ficción al máximo nivel, con una prosa detallada y una ambientación magistral, como solo Ken Follett sabe crear. A pesar de lo que pueda parecer, la historia no se centra principalmente en la construcción de Stonehenge; de hecho, apenas se aborda ese tema hasta más o menos la mit......more