2025 Women's Prize for FictionLike this list

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• Women's Prize for Fiction

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  "‘The Safekeep is that rare thing: a masterful blend of history, suspense and historical authenticity. Every word is perfectly placed, page after page revealing an aspect of war and the Holocaust that has been, until now, mostly unexplored in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Safekeep

  a Novel

  Wouden, Yael van der

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  WINNER- "It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother’s country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But all is upended when her brother…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Girl

  Aber, Aria

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  Shortlist - "In Berlin’s underground, where techno rattles buildings still scarred with the violence of the last century, nineteen-year-old Nila finds her tribe. In their company she can escape the parallel city that made her, the public housing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Fours

  July, Miranda, 1974-

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  Shortlist - "A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel and immerses herself in a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Persians

  Mahloudji, Sanam, 1977-

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  Shortlist - "Meet the women of the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies. Spanning from 1940s Iran into a splintered 2000s The Persians is an irresistible portrait of a unique family in crisis that explores…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fundamentally

  Younis, Nussaibah

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  Shortlist - "Nadia is an academic who’s been disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, Rosy. She decides to make a getaway, accepting a UN job in Iraq. Tasked with rehabilitating ISIS women, Nadia becomes mired in the opaque world…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ministry of Time

  Bradley, Kaliane

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  Longlist - "In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering ‘expats’ from across history to test the limits of time-travel."

• Somewhere Else

  Daiches, Jenni, 1941-

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  Longlist - "Rosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave behind everything she knows with only a suitcase of clothes and her father’s violin. An epic generational novel about womanhood and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Amma

  De Silva, Saraid

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  Longlist - "1951, Singapore. Ten-year-old Josephina kills her abuser. This event becomes the defining moment in the lives of Josephina, her daughter Sithara, and her granddaughter Annie. The effects cascade through generations as Annie sets out…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crooked Seeds

  a Novel

  Jennings, Karen, 1982-

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  Longlist - "Deidre is a victim, of her family, her society, her history. That is how she sees herself, and so she feels free of all obligations, moral and practical. Until the police take her back to her family home… In a Cape Town where water is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dream Hotel

  Lalami, Laila, 1968-

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  Longlist - "Sara is returning home from a conference abroad when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside at the airport. Using data from her dreams, their algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dream Count

  a Novel

  Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

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  Longlist - "Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nesting

  O'Donnell, Roisín, 1983-

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  Longlist - "On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes from the washing line, Ciara straps her two young daughters into her car and drives away. Head…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Little Trickerie

  Inspired by True Events

  Pike, Rosanna

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  Longlist - "Born a vagabond, Tibb Ingleby has never had a roof of her own. But her mother has taught her that if you’re not too bound by the Big Man’s rules, there are many ways a woman can find shelter in this world. Now her ma is dead in a trick…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Birding

  Ruane, Rose

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  Longlist - "In a small seaside town, autumn is edging into winter, gulls ride winds over the waves, and two women pass each other on the promenade, as yet unaware of each other’s existence." "With mordant wit and lyrical prose, Birding asks if we…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Artist

  Steeds, Lucy (Novelist)

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  Longlist - "PROVENCE, 1920 Ettie moves through the remote farmhouse, silently creating the conditions that make her uncle’s artistic genius possible. Joseph, an aspiring journalist, has been invited to the house. He believes he’ll make his name…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tell Me Everything

  a Novel

  Strout, Elizabeth, 1956-

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  Longlist - "It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with…Read moreRead more of this annotation