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Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Women's Prize for Fiction | 2017 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Interweaving three stories about knowledge and seeing—a narrator's experience of pregnancy and parenthood, the history of X-ray discovery, and Freud's early case studies—Sight meditates on what we know, what we choose to see, and the relationships between mothers and daughters.
About the Author
Jessie GreengrassBritish
Jessie Greengrass is a British writer born in 1982. Her short story collection An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It (2015) won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. Her debut novel Sight (2018) was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Wellcome Book Prize. Read more →
