Difference between revisions of "Women's Prize for Fiction 2013"
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|author=Carrie Tiffany | |author=Carrie Tiffany | ||
|title=Mateship With Birds | |title=Mateship With Birds | ||
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|genre=Literary Fiction | |genre=Literary Fiction | ||
| − | |summary= | + | |summary= In the early nineteen fifties a lonely, middle-aged farmer observed the birds on his land and recorded what he saw in the blank pages of his milk ledger. His animals and the birds were his family and his land - difficult though it could be - a part of him. Whilst Harry watched and recorded, his neighbour, Betty, watched Harry and recorded the childhood illnesses and accidents of her two children. By day she worked in a nursing home where she was a lunchtime 'wife', sitting at the bedside of some of the old men in her care. Her daughter, Hazel, kept a nature notebook which was completely factual and accepting of birth and death in a way that can only be achieved by those who live with livestock - and deadstock - on a daily basis. |
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447219864</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447219864</amazonuk> | ||
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Revision as of 15:12, 21 March 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:
