AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW From the multi-million copy bestselling author Demon Copperhead : a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - now available for the first time in the UK. ''[Kingsolver] means to save us by telling us stories . . . She comes closer than anyone else I know.'' ANNE PATCHETT ''Clear and emotional . . . This is a report from the trenches of where the political meets the personal.'' JOHN SAYLES It was the summer of 1983. Barbara Kingsolver had a day job as a scientific writer spending weekends cutting her teeth as a freelance journalist when she landed an assignment at a constellation of small, strike-gripped mining towns strung out across southern Arizona. Her mission was to cover the Phelps Dodge mine strike. Over the year that followed Kingsolver stood with those miners and their families, increasingly engaged and heartbroken, as they cried out to a wide world that either refused to believe what was happening to them, or didn''t care, or simply could not know. Kingsolver recorded stories of striking miners and their stunningly courageous wives, sisters, daughters. Sometimes visiting them in jail, witnessing the outrageous injustices they suffered. She saw rights she''d taken for granted denied to people she had learned to care about. This book is not precisely about the mine strike of 1983, and not at all about copper. It is the true story of the families who held the line, and of Kingsolver''s commitment to tell the story of the women and girls who discovered themselves in their fight to keep their families from destitution. Made in Dagenham meets Erin Brockovich, this book is about the sparks that fly when the flint of force strikes against human mettle. FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER AND WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023

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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. Her work of narrative non-fiction is the influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and is the first author to win the Women's Prize twice. Barbara lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.

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It was the summer of 1983. Barbara Kingsolver had a day job as ascientific writer spends her weekends cutting her teeth as a freelancejournalist when she landed an assignment. Her mission: was to cover the PhelpsDodge mine strike.Overthe year that followed Kingsolver stood with those miners and their families,increasingly engaged and heartbroken. She recorded stories of striking minersand their stunningly courageous wives, sisters and daughters. She saw rightsshe'd taken for granted denied to people she had learned to care about, asthey cried out to a wide world that either refused to believe what washappening to them, or didn't care, or simply could not know.Thisbook is the true story of the families who held the line, and of Kingsolver'scommitment to tell the story of the women and girls who discovered themselvesin their fight to keep their families from destitution.Itis a story about the sparks that fly when the flint of force strikes againsthuman mettle