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Tell Me About the Lions: A Literary Survival Novel of the Ice Age
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
ISBN13: 9781764114837
Publisher: Alfie Charlie Press
Published: Apr 5 2026
Pages: 404
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She was meant to study the past. Instead, she was left inside it.
Laura Chambers is an archaeologist devoted to Chauvet Cave, where lions, rhinos, mammoths, and red handprints still wait in the dark more than thirty thousand years after they were made.
On the final day of a restricted research visit, something goes wrong.
When Laura wakes, the lights are gone. Her team is gone. The modern world is gone.
Above the cave lies the Paleolithic Ice Age. Inside it, there is only cold stone, hunger, failing fire, and the painted animals she once studied from a distance. No rescue. No invention. No way back. Only the brutal work of survival.
As the days wear on, Laura is stripped down to instinct, memory, and grief. She scavenges, hunts, hallucinates, and clings to thoughts of Maya, the woman who once knew her completely, while Chauvet waits around her in silence.
Thirty thousand years later, her name is found carved into the stone.
Tell Me About the Lions is a queer literary survival novel of deep time, archaeology, and what remains when a life is reduced to its final trace. Set in the real chambers of Chauvet Cave and grounded in archaeological detail, it is a haunting time slip novel about endurance, witness, and the oldest art in the world.
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