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Orange Prize long-listing for THE SEALED LETTER
Emma Donoghue’s novel, THE SEALED LETTER, has been long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. Her previous novel, ROOM, was short-listed for the 2011 prize.
Drawn from the details of the Codrington Affair, a scandalous divorce case that gripped Britain in 1864, THE SEALED LETTER is both a gripping courtroom thriller and a domestic exposé of friendship, betrayal, love, and infidelity.
The 20-strong longlist in full:
Island of Wings — Karin Altenberg (Quercus)
On the Floor — Aifric Campbell (Serpent’s Tail)
The Grief of Others — Leah Hager Cohen (The Clerkenwell Press)
The Sealed Letter — Emma Donoghue (Picador)
Half Blood Blues — Esi Edugyan (Serpent’s Tail)
The Forgotten Waltz — Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)
The Flying Man — Roopa Farooki (Headline Review)
Lord of Misrule — Jaimy Gordon (Quercus)
Painter of Silence — Georgina Harding (Bloomsbury)
Gillespie and I — Jane Harris (Faber)
The Translation of the Bones — Francesca Kay (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
The Blue Book — A L Kennedy (Jonathan Cape)
The Night Circus — Erin Morgenstern (Harvill Secker)
The Song of Achilles — Madeline Miller (Bloomsbury)
Foreign Bodies — Cynthia Ozick (Atlantic Books)
State of Wonder — Ann Patchett (Bloomsbury)
There but for the — Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
The Pink Hotel — Anna Stothard (Alma Books)
Tides of War — Stella Tillyard (Chatto & Windus)
The Submission — Amy Waldman (William Heinemann)
The shortlist will be announced on 17th April, with the winner crowned on 30th May.
Read more about the long-list via The Bookseller, The Irish Times, The Guardian and The National Post»
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