'Powerful and provocative ... Each time I revisit The Inheritors I find something new.' Penelope Lively This was a different voice; not the voice of the people. It was the voice of other. When the spring came the people moved back to their familiar home. But this year strange things were happening - inexplicable sounds and smells; unexpected acts of violence; and new, unimaginable creatures half-glimpsed through the leaves. Seen through the eyes of a small tribe of Neanderthals whose world is hanging in the balance, The Inheritors explores the emergence of a new race - ourselves, Homo sapiens - whose growing dominance threatens an entire way of life. 'An earthquake in the petrified forest of the English novel.' Arthur Koestler With a new introduction by John Carey