For Adults
To celebrate the publication of Holding the Line by Barbara Kingsolver this October, we’re offering 3 reading groups the opportunity to win hardback copies to read and review.
Please apply by emailing phoebe.williams@faber.co.uk, including a note about why your group would be interested in reading and reviewing Holding the Line. The deadline for applications is 24 October.
We’d love to hear what your group thinks about the book and for you to share your reviews on key retailer sites – we’ll send you further information about this if your application is successful.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Holding the Line is a true story of female-led resilience – available for the first time in the UK this autumn.
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. Her mission: to cover the Phelps Dodge mine strike.
Over the year that followed, Kingsolver stood with those miners and their families, increasingly engaged and heartbroken. She recorded stories of striking miners and their stunningly courageous wives, sisters and daughters. She saw rights she’d taken for granted denied to people she had learned to care about, 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.
This book 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.
It is a story about the sparks that fly when the flint of force strikes against human mettle.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Barbara Kingsolver is the global prize-winning and bestselling author of novels including Demon Copperhead,The Lacuna and The Poisonwood Bible, as well as books of poetry, essays and creative non-fiction. 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 Women’s Prize for Fiction twice and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
