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Elmet

by Fiona Mozley

Booker Prize · 2017 · ShortlistWomen's Prize for Fiction · 2017 · Shortlist
Hodder & Stoughtonliterary-fictionISBN 9781473661721

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Booker Prize2017Shortlist
Women's Prize for Fiction2017Shortlist

About This Book

Daniel and his sister Cathy have been living an isolated life in the Yorkshire countryside with their father, a giant of a man who built their house with his own hands. Their idyllic, self-sufficient life is shattered when men from the outside world arrive to claim the land. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2017 and the Women's Prize for Fiction.

About the Author

Fiona Mozley is a British novelist born in London in 1988. She studied medieval history at Cambridge University and the University of York. Elmet (2017) was her debut novel and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2017 and the Gordon Burn Prize, and longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Read more →

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