Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist 2025
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Each of the shortlisted six books explore the need for personal freedom and human connection, illustrating the ways in which autonomy, love, and friendship can act as a salve to life’s challenges. Written with nuance and depth, they offer compelling multi-layered stories that urge you to sit up and take notice of the world around you.
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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance,…
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS PICKA BEST SUMMER READING PICK FOR THE TIMES, THE DAILY MAIL, THE FT AND THE GUARDIANA 2024 BOOK OF THE…
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A hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker Prize shortlisted author of My Name is Lucy BartonTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND…
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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025A riotously funny and moving debut novel following five women from three generations of a once illustrious Iranian family as their lives are turned upside downMeet the women of the Valiat…
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Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2025'A house is a precious thing...'An exhilarating tale of twisted desire,…
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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025‘By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?’When academic Nadia is disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, she decides to make a getaway…
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