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From the acclaimed Barbara Kingsolver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and twice winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction

‘Animals dream about the things they do in the daytime just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.’ So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd’s advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona, to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What she finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life.

‘A rich, compassionate book’ Alice Hoffman

‘Rich, complex, witty… This one will be with us for a long time’ Washington Post

‘An emotional masterpiece’ New York Daily News

‘A novel that feels closer to the truth about modern lives than anything I’ve read in a long time’ Cosmopolitan

Publisher Review

ANIMAL DREAMS is one of those rare novels I could not put down and left me wondering whether to go back to the beginning or simply anticipate the next product from this woman's pen * LOS ANGELES TIMES * If you enjoy prose, you'll treasure ANIMAL DREAMS. A beautiful, memorable novel full of scenes and images that linger in the mind * Tony Hillerman * A rich, compassionate book * Alice Hoffman * Kingsolver is a writer of rare ambition and unequivocal talent...Animal Dreams is a complex, passionate, bravely challenging book * Chicago Tribune * An astonishing book that ought to put Barbara Kingsolver in the first ranks of fiction writers * Cosmopolitan * Rich, complex, witty...This is a sweet book, full of bitter pain; a beautiful weaving of the light and the dark. This one will be with us for a long time * Washington Post * Barbara Kingsolver demonstrates a special gift for the vivid evocation of landscape and of her characters' state of mind * New York Times Book Review * A rich, compassionate book * Alice Hoffman *