To include a new Foreword by Alice Walker, new cover, purple ribbon, head and tail bands, purple boards - a beautiful edition for anyone who loves the book and a great present for anyone who is yet to read this classic The Color Purple has sold over 1 million copies in Britain alone and continues to sell around 40,000 every year - 25 years after first publication! The Color Purple was made into an award-winning film by Steven Spielberg starring Whoopie Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey It won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award 'The Color Purple is a story that stays with you forever. It's there morning, noon and night and right beside you every time you try and lose yourself in another tale. It's been with me for twenty years now and refuses to gather dust on the bookshelf of my life' Dotun Adebayo

"The Color Purple has been read and reread by millions. Forget lilac, mauve and lavendar: this is the royal purple." The Times

Alice Walker won the Pulitzer prize and the American Book Award for The Color Purple. She is the author of many bestselling novels, essays and collections of poetry.