Hilary Mantel’s new novel will vie against Booker Prize winner Girl, Woman, Other for this year’s Women’s Prize For Fiction.
Mantel concluded her Thomas Cromwell trilogy with The Mirror And The Light, which was published last month. Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other was the joint winner of the Booker Prize last year.
Chair of the judges, Baroness Lane-Fox, said the six shortlisted books offer the chance to “connect with the outside world” while in lockdown. “I find that having an ability to connect into a world outside is fundamental to being able to cope with being locked inside,” the Lastminute.com co-founder said. “Sitting down, shutting a door, taking some time to yourself and reading, I believe, makes you more able to be
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