Lisa McInerney, Gavin McCrea and Julia Rochester contend for £10,000 debut fiction award
The Desmond Elliott prize has taken on an Irish lilt, with two out of the three authors shortlisted for the 2016 award for first novels written in English hailing from the Republic. Lisa McInerney and Gavin McCrea are up against the English author Julia Rochester for the £10,000 debut fiction prize.
McCrea makes the shortlist with Mrs Engels, a fictionalised account of two sisters who became involved with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. According to the novelist Ian Pears, chair of the judges on this year’s award, the novel was “perhaps the most feminist novel we read for the prize”.
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