Barbara Kingsolver recommends...

In June 2023 Barbara Kingsolver won the Women's Prize for Fiction for the second time for her deeply moving novel Demon Copperfield, while her novel Lacuna also won the Prize in 2010. We asked the acclaimed novelist for her top recommended listens and she's shared three wonderful classics to get stuck into this summer.
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    • By: George Eliot
    • Narrated by: Maureen O'Brien
    • Length: 32 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 26-07-09
    • Language: English
    • 871 ratings
    • Middlemarch by George Eliot, narrated by Maureen O'Brien
    • ‘I've re-read Middlemarch at least once in every decade of my life. And each time, I'm amazed to find it's an entirely new book in relation to my deeper experiences of life, and still perfect.’

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    • Penguin Classics
    • By: Virginia Woolf, Sandra Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Ms Pippa Nixon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 52 ratings
    • Orlando by Virginia Woolf, narrated by Pippa Nixon
    • ‘In this book, Woolf is writing fiction about fiction. She's making art about art. The layers in it were so fascinating to me that I finished it and I didn't put it down. I went right back to the beginning, and started reading it again.’

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