![]() ![]() "The Women's Prize judges have some serious form in picking out good books, so I'm delighted they've chosen to include mine on this year's longlist. It was my first novel with Penguin and the first to be published under their new Sandycove Press imprint based in Dublin, so I'm thrilled that their faith in me has been rewarded. MacMahon said: "This means the world, to me and the book. It’s a story of grief and living life to the full.” ![]() Malik called Dolan’s debut “a taut, gripping book full of unsympathetic characters that for some reason you remain extremely invested in.” Mee said of MacMahon’s novel: “Widower David examines his relationship with his dead wife and their 20-year marriage. The chair of this year’s judges is 2019 Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, whose fellow judges are Elizabeth Day Vick Hope Nesrine Malik and Sarah-Jane Mee. Perhaps the best-known name on the list, however, is actor and author Dawn French. ![]() The list includes Ali Smith, a previous winner who has also been shortlisted twice before, and Amanda Craig, who has previously been longlisted. Naoise Dolan has been nominated for Exciting Times, one of six debuts on the list, and Kathleen MacMahon for her acclaimed third novel, Nothing But Blue Sky. Two Irish authors have been longlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, along with six British and five American authors, one Canadian, one Barbadian and one Ghanaian / American. ![]()
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