The Last NeanderthalBy Claire CameronDoubleday Canada288 pp: $29.95A couple of years ago, novelist Claire Cameron was taking a wintry hike along a rugged stretch of the Niagara escarpment when she chanced on an ancient limestone cave. But she remembers relishing the experience, because it opened another crack into the distant world of her new novel, The Last Neanderthal. The Last Neanderthal, published by Doubleday Canada, confirms this effervescent 43-year-old Torontonian as Canada’s foremost practitioner of survival fiction. This sort of material comes naturally to Cameron, who started taking risks as a child. “The experience of surviving in the wilderness is something that’s fascinated me for a long time,” she points out.

Source: National Post April 28, 2017 18:48 UTC