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03/09/2004
Wolf Brother book gets record advance
A 22-year-old story about a prehistoric boy hunter has earned its author a record seven-figure advance.
British author Michelle Paver re-wrote Wolf Brother as a children's novel recently and the international rights were sold for $5m.
The 43-year-old former lawyer first drafted the book in 1982 while at university but never finished it.
Since then, Paver has established herself as an author of love stories and her novel, A Place in the Hills, was shortlisted for the £10,000 Parker Pen Romantic Fiction Award.
Wolf Brother is the first of six stories set in the Stone Age forests of 4,000BC.
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