Fictional portrait of Jo and Edward Hopper wins Walter Scott prize

£25,000 award for the year’s best historical novel goes to Christine Dwyer Hickey’s The Narrow Land, which depicts the artists’ marriage

Irish author Christine Dwyer Hickey’s exploration of the marriage of the American artists Edward and Jo Hopper has won the £25,000 Walter Scott prize for historical fiction.

Set in 1950, Dwyer Hickey’s The Narrow Land follows Michael, an orphan who has survived a concentration camp, as he is sent to spend the summer on Cape Cod with a boy called Richie and his mother. While there, the boys form an unlikely friendship with the Hoppers.

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