Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver: Episode 5

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Placed with the impecunious McCobb family, Demon meets an old friend from foster care.

After a more permanent placing arises with the impecunious McCobb family, Demon is shocked to meet an old friend from foster care.
Read by Carl Prekopp

Dickens’ David Copperfield is reimagined for the modern age by one of our best-loved novelists in this compelling, atmospheric tale of redemption.
Young Demon Copperhead is a good-hearted boy with the misfortune to be born into a broken society. As Demon battles through foster care, child labour and a dysfunctional education system, Kingsolver’s righteous anger is leavened with compassion for her glorious cast of characters in this epic tale of love, loss and community.

When a more permanent placing arises with the impecunious McCobb family, Demon is shocked to meet an old friend from foster care.

Barbara Kingsolver is the prize-winning author of novels, essays, poetry and journalism. Her books include 'The Poisonwood Bible', 'The Lacuna' and 'Unsheltered' and she established the Bellwether Prize for Fiction, America's largest prize for an unpublished first novel.

Read by Carl Prekopp
Written by Barbara Kingsolver
Abridged by Siân Preece
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie

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Charles Dickens' David Copperfield is reimagined for the modern age by Barbara Kingsolver, one of our best-loved novelists, in this compelling and atmospheric tale of redemption.

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