March 8, 2023 · 8:32 pm
The Girls’s Prize for Fiction longlist for 2023 was introduced yesterday. The 16 titles are:
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
Homesick by Jennifer Croft
Hearth Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
Youngsters of Paradise by Camilla Grudova
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Cursed Bread by Sophie Waterproof coat
The Canine of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie
Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel
Pod by Laline Paull
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Memphis by Tara M Stringfellow
I didn’t write a predictions submit for this 12 months’s Girls’s Prize for Fiction longlist, so that you’ll simply need to take my phrase for it that ‘The Marriage Portrait’ by Maggie O’Farrell would positively have been on it and I can be looking for out a replica sooner or later. I have already got a NetGalley copy of ‘Demon Copperhead’ by Barbara Kingsolver on my Kindle which I hope to learn quickly. Her ninth novel is loosely based mostly on the construction of ‘David Copperfield’ by Charles Dickens however set in southwest Virginia within the Nineteen Nineties.
I used to be anticipating to see ‘Birnam Wooden’ by Eleanor Catton and ‘I Have Some Questions For You’ by Rebecca Makkai on the longlist, neither of which made the minimize. As an alternative, the judges have chosen 9 debut novels together with ‘Homesick’ by Jennifer Croft which has been marketed as a memoir in the USA and as a coming-of-age novel about two sisters by its UK writer Charco Press. Croft gained the Worldwide Man Booker Prize in 2018 for translating Flights by Olga Tokarczuk from the unique Polish. I’ve additionally seen numerous constructive critiques for ‘I’m a Fan’ by Sheena Patel which is about how social media can affect energy dynamics in relationships.
What are your ideas on this 12 months’s longlist and which books are you eager to learn?
