Flight Behaviour

On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature: the monarch butterflies have not migrated south for the winter this year. Is this a miraculous message from God, or a spectacular sign of climate change. Entomology expert, Ovid Byron, certainly believes it is the latter.

'One of the best books about climate change.' NAOMI KLEIN

'Urgent issues demand important art. Flight Behaviour rises - with conscience and majesty - to the occasion of its time.' Guardian

'She is brilliant at creating three-dimensional characters and getting us to care about them Lyrical, socially engaged and passionate. Kingsolver fans will love it.' Sunday Times

'There are many moments of lightness and of great beauty, too.' Independent

'A compelling plot with lyrical passages and flashes of humour.' Sunday Telegraph

Barbara Kingsolver's books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction include the novels the international bestseller The Poisonwood Bible , which is now considered a modern classic and was chosen as the best reading group novel ever at the Penguin/Women's Prize Awards, and The Lacuna , which won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2010. Her latest novel is Flight Behaviour .