Prodigal Summer: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction Main edition

It is summer in the Appalachian mountains. From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and interrupts her self-assured, solitary life.