Ken Follett

Well, certainly the fact that quite a lot of things are not known leaves the writer of fiction with some room, which of course you don't get if you write about the 16th century or certainly not the 20th century when, you know, people's movements were tracked and so on.

But really the interesting thing about Stonehenge is the question of how on earth they did it.

And in a sense, all of it is speculation, but some of it's,

Oh, yes.

Of course, a novel is always about the people and their everyday lives and their emotions.

Any kind of novel, you know, wartime novel.

It's a novel because it's about the people rather than the dates and the dry facts.

And we do know within the bounds of probability, we do know a bit about the lives of Stone Age people.

So the thing that's easiest to find out about is the tools that they use.

because there were no metal tools, as you mentioned, there's no metal at all.

So they're only cutting implement.

was a flint.

That was used to cut down trees because that was all they had.

It was used to cut anything they wanted to cut, the joint of meat or crops or anything.

So for me, that was like the first thing that gave me the clue to life in the Stone Age because we find these flints.

They're two a penny.

I mean, I wouldn't have one on my desk if they were seriously rare.

But there are different qualities of flint.

And the best flint

is found underground.