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Born in Malawi to Belgian and South African parents, Michelle Paver moved to Wimbledon, England as a young girl. She was educated at The Study and Wimbledon High School. After reading biochemistry at University of Oxford, where she earned a first-class degree, she became a partner in a London law firm. Her father's death in 1996 prompted her to take a one-year sabbatical, during which she travelled around France and America and wrote her first book, Without Charity. She resigned from practicing law soon afterwards to concentrate on writing.
Since the age of ten, Paver has dreamed about running with the wild wolves in the prehistoric forest. Writing The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series has been a way for her to fulfill this dream. To research Wolf Brother, Paver traveled through the forests of northern Finland and Lapland. Michelle Paver is also the author of a series of books for children set during the Bronze Age entitled Gods and Warriors.
She is also the author of several adult novels, including A Place in the Hills, The Shadow Catcher, Fever Hill, The Serpent's Tooth, and Dark Matter. Her most recent works include The Eye of The Falcon
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Michelle Paver, author of The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
series, tells us of her experiences researching pre-historic clans, her love of
wolves, and her close encounter with a bear!
Why do so many children love the idea of being snowed in or shipwrecked; of
having to survive on one's own? When I was a child, I was no exception. I wanted
to hunt with a bow and arrow like the Stone Age people; to skin deer and build
my own shelter. And I desperately wanted a wolf. As we lived in London, my
options were limited. I bought a rabbit from the butcher's "with the fur
still on", and skinned it and cured its hide with salt. I got rid of my
bed, and slept on the floor. I dug up the lawn to grow obscure medicinal herbs.
But although my parents tolerated the herbs and the sleeping on the floor, they
drew the line at a wolf, and got me a spaniel instead.
Then I grew up, and it seemed as if all that Stone Age stuff had gone for good.
But of course it hadn't. It was just simmering away in my subconscious, waiting
to re-surface.
It did so briefly when I was an undergraduate at Oxford, trying (as yet
unsuccessfully) to write novels. I had a stab at a story about a boy and a wolf
cub, but although I loved ...
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