Flight Behaviour: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

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**NOW INCLUDING THE FIRST CHAPTER OF DEMON COPPERHEAD**

TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR

'Lyrical, socially engaged and passionate.' Sunday Times

' There are many moments of lightness ... and of great beauty, too. ' Independent

'A compelling plot with lyrical passages and flashes of humour.' Sunday Telegraph

A captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change by the award-winning, global bestselling author of Demon Copperhead and The Lacuna

"The flames now appeared to lift from individual treetops in showers of orange sparks, exploding the way a pine log does in a campfire when it is poked. The sparks spiralled upward in swirls like funnel clouds. Twisters of brightness against grey sky."

On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature: the monarch butterflies have not migrated south for the winter this year. Is this a miraculous message from God, or a spectacular sign of climate change. Entomology expert, Ovid Byron, certainly believes it is the latter. He ropes in Dellarobia to help him decode the mystery of the monarch butterflies.

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4.3
13 reviews
Kath Crolla
October 10, 2018
For me, the first half if the story went on a little too long, and it began to be revelatory to me only in the second half. By this I mean I don't think so long was needed to establish the character and context of Dellarobia. The scenes between her and Hester are exquisite however. Then I think there is a rushing of the final parts of the story. But overall I loved it.
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Kate Conroy
May 23, 2014
It's not preachy at all, but a beautiful study of human nature in the face of change...what happens when your backwoods-y farm is suddenly taken over by climate confused migratory butterflies? How will a small town react?
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Na Ap
April 3, 2021
No poisonwood Bible but still I enjoyed it.
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About the author

Barbara Kingsolver's fourteen books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction include the novels the international bestseller The Poisonwood Bible, which is now considered a modern classic and was chosen as the best reading group novel ever at the Penguin/Orange Awards, and The Lacuna, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010. Her latest novel is Flight Behaviour.

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