{"id":4134,"date":"2025-01-08T21:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T21:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/the-womens-prize-for-fiction-shortlist-2019\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T21:43:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T21:43:44","slug":"the-womens-prize-for-fiction-shortlist-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=4134","title":{"rendered":"The Women\u2019s Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-14764\">\n<p>\t\tApril 28, 2019 \u00b7 11:03 pm\t<\/p>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry entry-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">It is here! The longest of sixteen books which I mentioned last month (when I mentioned blowing off the cobwebs on this blog, cough \u2013 more on that below) have been whittled down to six fantastic titles which are\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><em>The Silence of the Girls<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>by Pat Barker<br \/><em>My Sister, The Serial Killer<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>by Oyinkan Braithwaite<br \/><em>Milkman<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>by Anna Burns<br \/><em>Ordinary People<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>by Diana Evans<br \/><em>An American Marriage<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>by Tayari Jones<br \/><em>Circe<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>by Madeline Miller<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">I have made a video talking about the shortlist below (I might have had a little prewarning, on the promise of my lips being firmly sealed until now)\u00a0and my thoughts on the title which I will embed below. However if you want more thoughts of mine on the longlist \u2013 and the thoughts of my mother \u2013 you can find a video of that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l6lt1_F3U6Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wDq2O3DwnqY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wDq2O3DwnqY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Now, as I mentioned in that last post a few weeks ago, I would like to use the Women\u2019s Prize \u2013 which has been a favourite prize of mine for as long as this blog has been going \u2013 and I have a plan. Over the next few weeks I will be sharing my more detailed thoughts on the shortlisted books AND backdating some posts on the longlisted titles that didn\u2019t make the shortlist. Including one, or maybe two, that I decided not to finish. Eek. More of that in the weeks to come.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">So, what do you all make of the shortlist? Which have you read and what did you think? Does this list match the selection of books you would have shortlisted?<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"wordads-inline-marker\" style=\"display: none;\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-links --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 28, 2019 \u00b7 11:03 pm It is here! The longest of sixteen books which I mentioned last month (when I mentioned blowing off the cobwebs on this blog, cough \u2013 more on that below) have been whittled down to six fantastic titles which are\u2026 The Silence of the Girls\u00a0by Pat BarkerMy Sister, The Serial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[3820,4211,4212,409],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-4134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-prize","tag-shortlist","tag-womens"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Women\u2019s Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2019 - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=4134\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Women\u2019s Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2019 - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"April 28, 2019 \u00b7 11:03 pm It is here! 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