From the best-selling author of The Poisonwood Bible 'Magnificent.' The Times Books of the Year 'She makes us think, believe, care - all at once.' Sunday Times Meet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against a world which seems to hold little mercy for her and her family - or their old, crumbling house, falling down around them. Willa's two grown-up children, a new-born grandchild, and her ailing father-in-law have all moved in at a time when life seems at its most precarious. But when Willa discovers that a pioneering female scientist lived on the same street in the 1800s, could this historical connection be enough to save their home from ruin? And can Willa, despite the odds, keep her family together?

Autorentext
Barbara Kingsolver is the global prize-winning and bestselling author of novels including Unsheltered, Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible and Demon Copperhead, as well as books of poetry, essays and creative non-fiction. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She has won many awards for fiction including the Pulitzer Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and is the only author to have won the Women's Prize twice. She lives with her family in southern Appalachia.

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Offering testament to the strength of the human spirit in a novel for troubled times, the Vineland of the present and the Vineland of the nineteenth century provide the settings for two characters bucking against the norms of their environment.

Zusammenfassung
'A novel of ideas ... urgent and raw ... her skill is creating characters who think for themselves, rather than simple idea-vectors: work that is human and humane.' - Weekend Australian