The politically contentious American author, Barbara Kingsolver, has been named the winner of this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction.
You can read what the New Statesman thought about Kingsolver’s previous novel The Prodigal Summer here.
Above all, Prodigal Summer is an elegant hymn to nature, exhorting us to pay attention to minute details that “too often go unnoticed”, and drawing us back into a both intellectual and sensual relationship with the natural world.
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