Wolf Road

REVIEW BY KK Wolf Road is Alice Roberts’ first foray into children’s literature. Drawing on archaeological and anthropological evidence, the book tries to provide as accurate a window as possible into the world of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, and into how they lived at the end of the last Ice Age. The story is centred on the life of 12-year-old Tuuli, whom we follow as she accompanies the reindeer herd out of the mountains and down to the sea as the long winter finally comes to an end. While this is a trip Tuuli and her clan make every year, this time it leads to her own personal spring awakening. For a children’s book, it is a bit light on plot, instead focusing on the everyda