Difference between revisions of "Women's Prize for Fiction 2013"
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|author=Barbara Kingsolver | |author=Barbara Kingsolver | ||
|title=Flight Behaviour | |title=Flight Behaviour | ||
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|genre=Literary Fiction | |genre=Literary Fiction | ||
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| + | Set in rural Tennessee, Dellarobia Turnbow is a young mother, trapped in the result of a shotgun wedding in a largely loveless marriage on her husband's failing family farm dominated by the disapproval of her God-fearing mother in law. She dreams of escape with equally unsuitable younger men until one day on her way to acting on this impulse for the first time, she encounters an act of nature that will change her life for good. Barbara Kingsolver perfectly captures in the opening paragraphs the sense of entrapment and dissatisfaction of Dellarobia and doesn't let up for a moment. | ||
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571290779</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571290779</amazonuk> | ||
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Revision as of 16:38, 1 April 2013
It used to be the Orange Prize for Fiction - now it's the Women's Prize for Fiction and these are the longlisted books:
