Rowena Cooper

When an earthquake destroys her family's camp, Ayla is left orphaned and alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land, with death all but guaranteed.

But then she is found by a woman of the Clan, a people very different from her own. To them, Ayla looks peculiar and ugly - her blonde hair and blue eyes marking her out as one of the Others, who have recently invaded their homeland. Yet Iza, the Clan's medicine woman, cannot leave the child to die.

As Ayla learns the ways of the Clan, Iza grows to love her, and the rest of the Clan begins to accept her. Everyone, that is, except Brun, the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader. And as his hatred for the strange girl of the Others deepens, Brun grows more determined to get his revenge…

Book 1 in the Earth's Children series.

The Laments adopt Will, a baby secretly switched at birth in hospital. This marks the beginning of a journey that takes them from Northern Rhodesia to the Persian Gulf in the 1950s, and from England to suburban America in the '70s, as they search for their place in the world. But the grass always seems greener on the other side.

Book 6 of the series, sequel to 'The Shelters of Stone' (6248). Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni - one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers.

Leaving the valley of horses with Jondalar, the handsome man she has nursed back to health and come to love, Ayla embarks on a journey that will lead her to the Mamutoi; the Mammoth Hunters. But as she settles into this new life among a people at first strange and disturbingly different, Ayla finds herself irresistibly drawn to Ranec, their master-carver. Ultimately, she is compelled to make a fateful choice between the two men.

Book 3 in the Earth's Children series.

The six-foot, blond aerialist Sophia Fewers, who is part woman, part swan, captivates American journalist, Jack Walser. He runs away with the enchanted circus that has literate chimpanzees, idealist brigands and tragic clowns.

Ayla and Jondalar leave the safety of the lands of the Mammoth Hunters and embark on a seemingly impossible journey across an entire continent. Their goal is the Cro-Magnon settlement in what is now southern France where Jondalar lived as a young man. Accompanied by the half-tame Wolf, the superb stallion, Racer, and the mare, Whinney, they brave both savage enemies and the elemental dangers of weather and terrain in their search for the place that will become Home.

Book 4 in the Earth's Children series.

Sylvie and Gowry McCulloch's marriage was not a match made in heaven, and they have experienced some difficult times. They settle in Dublin with their beloved daughter, Maeve, when Francis Hegarty explodes into their lives. X rated, explicit sexual content. Book 2 of series.

Ayla and Jondalar have reached home: the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as south-west France.

Ayla has much to learn from the Zelandonii as well as much to teach them. Jondalar's family are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back. She is delighted when she meets Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of her people, a fellow healer with whom she can share her medicinal skills.

After the rigours and dangers that have characterised her extraordinary life, Ayla yearns for peace and tranquility; to be Jondalar's mate and to have children. But her unique spiritual gifts cannot be ignored, and even as she gives birth to their eagerly-awaited child, she is coming to accept that she has a greater role to play in the destiny of the Zelandonii.

Book 5 in Earth's Children series.

Forced to leave the Clan and her young son, Ayla sets out alone to travel the frigid steppes until she finds the valley of horses. Unable to find people like herself, the Cro-Magnons, she settles there and seeks friendship elsewhere. First she adopts a young filly, then a wounded lion cub. But far to the west, two young Cro-Magnon brothers have begun a journey. One of them is Jondalar, whose destiny is bound inextricably with Ayla's.

Book 2 in the Earth's Children series.

This muli-award winning novel follows the journey of three generations of women from the same family through the tragic history of twentieth century China.