Circle of Days
By Ken Follett
- Release Date: 2025-09-23
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Description
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
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.
Reviews
Stonehenge
5By siriliniFascinating story. I couldn’t put it downTerrible
1By JoeprewittToo earthy for me. The story gets lost in the daily details and the poor dialogues. The conflicts also seem poorly conceived. The worst book he’s writtenGreat story
5By VgdeesInteresting interpretation of how whoever built Stonehenge would have been motivated to do the incredible thing that they didAwesome
5By Mirage FlyerAnother incredible Follett book.Circle of days
5By George*2Excellent read!Boring
2By RiccoVTedious. I had to quit 1/4 way through. Not nearly on par with previous books.Boring
1By Cold night readerSuch a disappointment. The dialogue was overly simplistic and unimaginative with poor character development. The story was predictable and dragged.Barely worth reading
2By fluff1millionDisappointing. The prose is flat and uninspired, the characters 1-dimensional.Circle of
1By bonseybrickThe most boring book I have read in quite a while.Disappointing
1By just please make it workRegretfully hard work. Too many bit players. No consistent character theme as initial character seemed to disappear. Tiring read during my peaceful designated night time as character names were not instantly memorable as they were present for a sentence or two. Sadly a lengthy book that never got going for me. A huge 5 star fan prior but now a tad wary . Sorry. Disappointed and regret the time allocated. Here’s to a brighter experience for both of us xLove everything he writes. I’ve read 12 of Ken’s books
5By east coast runawayI love the historical facts and the positive endings.Just … nah
1By Kdub!Nope.Too much pornhub for good all ken
1By Mr. Mango 1912As an anthropologist this is a travesty . Extrapolating the woke ideology to prehistory is just laughable. What was he trying to accomplish? Did he get kidnapped and forced to spew this trash?Worst
1By monkeydancerNot worth the read. Follett’s worst.Disappointed
2By Doc4dNo where near his best work. It’s too bad. A tremendous possibility, just didn’t live up to so many of his past works.Really bad, don’t buy
1By Mkdotu57Really bad.The worst Ken Follett book
1By CanucksharkI suffered through all the pages and it was painful. No stories, no characters and utter lack of visualization. Horrible.Stonehenge come to life
5By roydumThis book should be read by all aspiring authors as a master class in showing, not telling. Follet imagined a very plausible scenario for how Stonehenge might have been built. Endearing characters with his usual cold hearted tyrant to defeat or wait out by the good and honest. Loved it!Really interesting
4By BroikidoEnjoyed Follett’s novel about the building of Stonehenge
