It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. This novel represents motherhood in quite a stark light. Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby, it's a lot of effort! So when it did, I thought: oh, this is a perfect starting point. I don't know how that vision came into my head as that is not how this business usually works. I had been wanting to write about climate change for some years. One morning I imagined millions of butterflies settling in the treetops – a drastically altered natural phenomenon that people would not understand as dangerous, one that looks really beautiful but is in fact dreadful. Where did you get the idea for Flight Behaviour, a novel charting the impact of climate change on a rural farming community in the Appalachians? The winner of numerous awards, including the 2010 Orange prize, and the founder of the Bellwether prize for socially conscious fiction, her most recent book is Flight Behaviour. The 58-year-old now lives on a farm in Virginia and has 14 books to her name, including the bestselling The Poisonwood Bible. R aised in rural Kentucky, Barbara Kingsolver studied biology at DePauw and the University of Arizona and had a science-writing career before publishing her first novel, 1988's The Bean Trees, which roughly coincided with having her first child.
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