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'''First Novel Award'''
'''Winner'''
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|title=The Loney
|author=Andrew Michael Hurley
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It's always a privilege when you're given an advance reading copy of something – and a real 'block' when you read the small print that says 'not for resale or quotation'. Fair comment on the resale bit, but when you get something as brilliant as ''The Loney'' being required not to quote is just plain unfair.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619823</amazonuk>
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'''Other Books on the Shortlist'''
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|summary=Yasmin is fifteen and seriously overweight - her capacity for consuming food will amaze and sicken. She's bullied at school and even her own mother finds her just a little bit weird: let's not go into what her stepfather thinks about her. Her father died a while ago, but Yasmin has never really come to terms with his death and still has the feeling that everything would be OK if only Terry was still around. There's a girl in Yasmin's class called Alice and Yasmin is so in awe of her that she stalks her. One day, in the school playground, she spots a man watching Alice as carefully as she does and becomes obsessed by the idea that the man is going to abduct Alice.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782115943</amazonuk>
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