The Orange Prize is awarded for excellence in fiction by women and the longlist for 2008 has just been announced. I was excited to see a blast from my past - Stella Duffy - there. I read her early Saz Martin noir crime thrillers and then 1998 and 1999's Eating Cake and Singling Out The Couples (twisted, ironic tales of the heart) but had kind of lost track of her...
In fact, I haven't read a single title from the list. Not even the fabulously titled The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam. Have you? (Head over the cut for the list in full).
Tessa Hadley, The Master Bedroom
Nancy Huston, Fault Lines
Gail Jones, Sorry
Sadie Jones, The Outcast
Lauren Liebenberg, The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam
Charlotte Mendelson, When We Were Bad
Deborah Moggach, In The Dark
Anita Nair, Mistress
Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul
Dalia Sofer, The Septembers of Shiraz
Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr Y
Carol Topolski, Monster Love
Rose Tremain, The Road Home
Patricia Wood, Lottery
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