The UK’s only annual award for fiction written by women announced the shortlist today.
Esi Edugyan | Half Blood Blues | Serpent’s Tail | Canadian | 2nd Novel |
Anne Enright | The Forgotten | Waltz Jonathan Cape | Irish | 5th Novel |
Georgina Harding | Painter of Silence | Bloomsbury | British | 3rd Novel |
Madeline Miller | The Song of Achilles | Bloomsbury | American | 1st Novel |
Cynthia Ozick | Foreign Bodies | Atlantic Books | American | 7th Novel |
Ann Patchett | State of Wonder | Bloomsbury | American | 6th Novel |
Ann Patchett, won the Orange Prize for Fiction ten years ago for Bel Canto (2002). Bel Canto is a fantastic book – thoroughly recommended read.