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The Orange Prize for Fiction celebrates novels of excellence and originality by women writers, and helps promote women writers to a wider range of readers. The prize is the UK's largest annual literary award for a single novel, and the winner recieves £30,000 and a bronze figurine known as "Bessie".
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2004
Andrea Levy
It is 1948 in an England that is still shaken by war. At 21 Nevern Street, London, Queenie Bligh takes into her house lodgers who have recently arrived from Jamaica. She feels she has no choice.
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2003
Valerie Martin
Set in the surreal heat of the antebellum South during a slave rebellion, Property takes the form of a dramatic monologue, bringing to the page a voice rarely heard in American fiction: the voice of a woman slaveholder.
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2002
Ann Patchett
At once riveting and impassioned, the narrative becomes a moving exploration of how people communicate when music is the only common language.
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2001
Kate Grenville
Harley and Douglas arrive in the eccentric little New South Wales country town of Karakarook at the same time; she's there to help build a heritage museum, and he's there to demolish the quaint old Bent Bridge. From day one, they are on a collision course.
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2000
Linda Grant
In the spring of 1946, Evelyn Sert stands on the deck of a ship bound for Palestine. For the twenty-year-old from London, it is a time of adventure and change when all things seem possible.
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1999
Suzanne Berne
Set in the surreal heat of the antebellum South during a slave rebellion, Property takes the form of a dramatic monologue, bringing to the page a voice rarely heard in American fiction: the voice of a woman slaveholder.
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1998
Carol Shields
Meet Larry Weller. Born in 1950 to working class parents, he's an ordinary guy. His life is punctuated by unremarkable events: marriage, the birth of a child, divorce, job changes, illness, and the death of his parents.
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1997
Anne Michaels
Set in the surreal heat of the antebellum South during a slave rebellion, Property takes the form of a dramatic monologue, bringing to the page a voice rarely heard in American fiction: the voice of a woman slaveholder.
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1996
Helen Dunmore
Dunmore's hypnotic, affecting prose is filled with unexpected tenderness and moments of beauty as she expertly evokes a melancholy era with a wholly original edge and keenness.
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