drawing on a wealth of life experience

Authors nominated for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction award have one thing in common: they are all middle-aged.  The youngest author on the shortlist is Priscilla Morris, at just 49, with Barbara Kingsolver the oldest, at 68.

And while both Kingsolver and nominee Maggie O’Farrell are previous winners of the major fiction prize, others are new to novel writing. Jacqueline Crooks and Louise Kennedy arrived at the writer’s desk with a full life’s worth of experience after pursuing diverse careers.

Read more about this year’s authors and their nominated work here.