This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people,
relationships, and the boundaries of love.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great
American Read
Through Jean M. Auel's magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the
dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the
harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called
themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear.
A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an
unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan,
people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla
looks peculiar and ugly--she is one of the Others, those who have moved
into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and
takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and
as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza's way of healing, most come
to accept her. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become
their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. He
develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others
who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.