Award for best first novel reveals finalists in ‘a remarkable 12 months for debut fiction’
Two of the year’s unexpected bestsellers – Emma Healey’s mystery of an elderly woman with dementia, Elizabeth is Missing, and Jessie Burton’s portrait of 17th-century Amsterdam, The Miniaturist – go head to head on the longlist for the Desmond Elliott prize for the year’s best first novel.
Judges have announced 10 titles on a longlist praised by the chair, novelist Louise Doughty, for “the breadth of the books, in terms of subject matter and style, but also the level of attention the books have received so far”.
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