Welsh writer takes £15,000 prize for The Invisible, based on a real 18th-century woman who spread tales in her village
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A story inspired by a brief dictionary entry about an 18th-century woman described as a “voluble hypocrite” has won Jo Lloyd the £15,000 BBC national short story award.
In The Invisible, Martha, who claims she is friends with an invisible family, is living in an invisible mansion in Carnarvonshire. It opens: “Mr Ingram and his Invisible daughter Miss Ingram live close by, Martha tells us, in a grand, impractical mansion of the type the wealthy favour – except Invisible, of course – made from dressed stone the colour of spring cream, with a slate roof and glass in every window.”
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