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The Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron
4.0

I usually find novels that play the historic past against events in the present to be somewhat ham-fisted, but Cameron’s stark tale never falls into that trap. This tale of an archaeologist and the Neanderthal she is excavating is incisive and moving without becoming obvious.

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