Barbara Kingsolver is the global prize-winning and bestselling author of ten novels including Unsheltered, Flight Behaviour, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, The Bean Trees, the 2010 Women’s Prize-winning novel The Lacuna, the 2023 Women’s Prize-winning novel 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 twenty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction twice and been shortlisted. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.

Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

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There is no way that you can tell me there is a ‘best’ novel. There’s just a best novel for each one of us, because that’s what’s amazing and magical about fiction.

Barbara Kingsolver