Holding the Line

'[Kingsolver] means to save us by telling us stories . . . She comes closer than anyone else I know' Anne Patchett

'A mesmerising account of women finding their voices' The Times

This month's book is a classic work of non-fiction from one of America's greatest living novelists and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Barbara Kingsolver.

Working as a freelance journalist in 1983, Kingsolver was assigned to cover the Phelps Dodge mine strike. Over the year that followed, 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, and she was determined to share their voices. This is the true story of the women and girls who held the line.

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