Bone Lines

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Terrific scope and a powerful narrative that keeps you turning the pages while throwing up profound questions about humankind. Bravo - a great debut! </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Jane Johnson author and editor</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Gracefully written... a brave and moving adventure of the imagination.</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> Lindsay Clarke prize-winning author of </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Chymical Wedding</em></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A brilliant genre-defying read Bone Lines deftly unravels the wonder of oneness.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Barbara Bos Editor Women Writers Women's Books.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A young woman walks alone through a barren landscape in a time before history a time of cataclysmic natural change. She is cold hungry and with child but not without hope or resources. A skilful hunter she draws on her intuitive understanding of how to stay alive... and knows that she </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>must</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> survive.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In the present day geneticist Dr Eloise Kluft wrestles with an ancient conundrum as she unravels the secrets of a momentous archaeological find. She is working at the forefront of contemporary science but is caught in the lonely time-lock of her own emotional past.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Bone Lines</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is the story of two women separated by millennia yet bound by the web of life. This intriguing tale of love and survival of courage and the quest for wisdom also explores the nature of our species and asks what lies at the heart of being human.</span></p><p></p><p>Book 1 in <em>The Children of Sarah </em>series - look out for <em>The Fire In Their Eyes -</em> this second edition is now published by Breakthrough Books Crafted by Humans For Humans</p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Gripping read and a fascinating premise. I loved the authoritative tone and the idea of simultaneous closeness and distance across huge swathes of time. </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Lulu Allison author</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A monument to the timelessness of human nature and a work of art. Bretherton ignites her characters with a life complexity a personality with which any number of readers will identify and empathise with. </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Naomi Moore Editor New Orbit literary magazine</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ambitious and brave yet effortlessly pulled off... Like Sapiens... if fictionalised and seen through the eyes of two fierce and admirable women.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Zero Filter Books</span></p><p></p>