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Monday, January 4, 2016

Kate Atkinson wins Costa novel prize for A God in Ruins

Described as ‘utterly magnificent’ by the judges, Atkinson’s award makes her the first author to receive the Costa novel prize three times: for a God in Ruins in 2016, Life After Life in 2013 and Behind the Scenes at the Museum in 1995

The pressure might have been too much for some writers but not Kate Atkinson: just two years after winning the Costa novel award for Life After Life, a major bestseller hailed as “astonishing” by judges at the time, the novelist has landed the prize again for her follow-up, A God in Ruins.

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