Barbara Kingsolver's eyewitness of the Great Arizona Mine Strike. With the outcome delayed by bureaucracy, the women prepare for battles to come. Read by Laurel Lefkow.
As the strikes grinds to its inevitable conclusion, the women prepare to take on the struggle outside their communities.
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver's first book is now published in the UK for the first time. In her eye witness of the Great Arizona Mine Strike of the 1980s, Kingsolver captures a cast of fascinating women at a transformative point in their lives.
Read by Laurel Lefkow
Abridged by Eileen Horne
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie
In the decades since Kingsolver wrote 'Holding the Line', she has become the global prize-winning and bestselling author of ten novels including 'Unsheltered', 'The Poisonwood Bible' and 'Demon Copperhead'. Her work has been translated into more than twenty 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. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
A BBC Audio Scotland production for BBC Radio 4.
