The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award celebrating & honoring women’s fiction. These are the shortlist finalists for the 2019 Prize.
The silence of the girls : a novel
Pat Barker
FICTION Barker Pat
Fiction
The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War.
My sister, the serial killer : a novel
Oyinkan Braithwaite
FICTION Braithwaite, Oyinkan
Fiction
"Slasher meets satire, in this darkly comic novel set in Nigeria about a woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends"--
Milkman : a novel
Anna Burns
FICTION Burns Anna
Fiction
In Northern Ireland during the Troubles of the 1970s, an unnamed narrator finds herself targeted by a high-ranking dissident known as Milkman.
Ordinary people : a novel
Diana Evans
FICTION Evans Diana
Fiction
Hailed as "one of the most thrilling writers at work today" (Huffington Post), Diana Evans reaches new heights with her searing depiction of two couples struggling through a year of marital crisis. In a crooked house in South London, Melissa feels increasingly that she's defined solely by motherhood, while Michael mourns the former thrill of their romance. In the suburbs, Stephanie's aspirations for bliss on the commuter belt, coupled with her white middle-class upbringing, compound Damian's itch for a bigger life catalyzed by the death of his activist father. Longtime friends from the years when passion seemed permanent, the couples have stayed in touch, gathering for births and anniversaries, bonding over discussions of politics, race, and art. But as bonds fray, the lines once clearly marked by wedding bands aren't so simply defined. Ordinary People is a moving examination of identity and parenthood, sex and grief, and the fragile architecture of love.
An American marriage
Tayari Jones
FICTION Jones Tayari
Fiction
"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--
Circe : a novel
Madeline Miller
FICTION Miller Madeline
Fiction
Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.