June 4th, 2008
Rose Tremain wins Orange Prize
Rose Tremain has been announced this evening as the winner of this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel, The Road Home. I haven’t read it, but then but I’ve read two of Tremain’s other books and found them really tedious. There were three debut novelists - Sadie Jones, Heather O’Neill and Patricia Wood - on the shortlist, but Tremain, the bookies’ favourite at 2-1 picked up the £30,000 prize.
The shortlist:
Nancy Huston - Fault Lines
Sadie Jones The - Outcast
Charlotte Mendelson - When We Were Bad
Heather O’Neill - Lullabies for Little Criminals
Rose Tremain - The Road Home
Patricia Wood - Lottery
June 4th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I’ve only ever read Restoration by Tremain, and I liked it well enough, but then again, I haven’t raced out to buy anything else by her, so I guess I’m sorta undecided.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Apparently her short fiction is great but I’ve never read it. I can’t same I’m a fan of the Orange Prize mind, given my general ‘women can’t write novels’ sentiment! Especially seeing as A.L. Kennedy’s Day didn’t even make a longlist iirc?
June 5th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
She read at the Writers’ Festival in Dublin last year, so I have signed copies of Music and Silence and The Road Home. I’ve only read about 50 pages of Music and Silence, and I thought it interesting enough, but I had forgotten about both books till now. I suppose one of the benefits of winning prizes is that it jogs readers’ memories about books already purchased but left unread!
June 5th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
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