22.Mar.2010 About the Orange Prize List 2010
The Orange Prize for fiction has just released its longlist. I was excited to find that I have 2 of the books on the list!
Both books were obtained last year (I wrote about them here and here).
I was interested by Secret Son because it’s Moroccan (author and setting) and The White Woman on the Green Bicycle for its Trinidad origin (again, author and setting).
Jackie and Simon both made their predictions and wrote more about the other books. I haven’t heard of the rest of the others, apart from these two and This is How by M. J. Hyland (who is sort of Australian and whose book was featured on First Tuesday Book Club last year and has piqued my interest since then), The Help by Kathryn Stockett (which I have planned to read) and A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (whose short story I read a while back and liked). Oh and of course the big names like Wolf Hall, The Little Stranger, and The Lacuna, but they don’t need more mentioning, do they?
Which book piques your interest? Which one do you plan to read?
mee 
