To his alarm, it didn’t lead towards the valley where the clan was camped, but down to the River Blackthorn where he and Renn kept their canoe. “Tracking was what Torak did best, and even by starlight he found Renn’s three-day-old trail. Now Torak is on the trail of Renn, who has disappeared without a word. Ten years later, Torak, Renn and Wolf are, in fact, back, both in an upcoming TV adaptation of the first six books and in Paver’s latest novel, Viper’s Daughter. “As soon as you write that last line and finish the book they are gone,” she told the Guardian at the time, “and they don’t come back.” W hen Michelle Paver won the Guardian children’s fiction prize in 2010 for the final book in her bestselling Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, she was done with the stone age adventures of the boy Torak, his wolf companion, and the girl Renn.
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