Two sets of twins are among the pearls on this year’s shortlist for the £30,000 Women’s Prize for Fiction. However, with this shortlist, we are excited to present a gloriously varied and thematically rich exploration of women’s fiction at its finest. “Fiction by women defies easy categorisation or stereotyping, and all of these novels grapple with society’s big issues expressed through thrilling storytelling. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House is her first novel.

Source: The Irish Times April 28, 2021 17:26 UTC