![]() ![]() On the day she finally walks out, and heads up the closest mountain peak to meet him, she finds something far more remarkable: ‘a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature’. Or so it seemed for now, to a woman with flame-coloured hair who marched uphill to meet her demise.’ ![]() Kingsolver writes: ‘A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture. The novel’s opening immediately caught my attention. Bored of her life, and the constant struggle to provide for her family, Dellarobia ‘impulsively seeks out an affair’ with a man living in the local town. She lives in a small house with her husband, Cub, and two young children, six-year-old Preston and two-year-old Cordelia, on the Turnbow family’s land. ![]() Dellarobia Turnbow is a young woman living on a ‘failing farm’ in the Appalachian region of Tennessee. ![]()
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