Cover art by Ben Baldwin shows a creature crouching in a low tunnel entrance lined with grey stones and partly hidden by green undergrowth and white flowers. The creature has pale skin covered in sparse black hair and it looks a bit like an ape, a bit like a bear, and completely unlike either of those.
Book extract reads: With Fin scanning and me packing, we got quickly through the self-checkout. I retraced our route through the retail park’s roundabouts. Back on the main road, I realised we were heading pretty much straight due west. I lowered the windscreen visor to cut the glare when the late-afternoon sun shone through gaps in the clouds.
Fin took her sunglasses out of the lightweight backpack she uses instead of a handbag. ‘Where are your shades?’
‘In the boot, in my hiking backpack with my water bottle and the map.’ If I’d thought about that, I could have got the sunglasses out when we stopped at the superstore.
‘Do you want to pull up somewhere?’ Fin looked ahead for a lay-by or a parking spot.
‘I’ll be okay. Let’s get on.’ The traffic had slowed dramatically, and I wondered why. Then I spotted signs to Stonehenge,and as the road narrowed to a single carriageway, we saw the ancient monument straight ahead through the windscreen.
