13th April 2004
Alice
Sebold's The Lovely Bones wins 'Richard and Judy Best Read Award' at the
British Book Awards
Over 30,000 of the great British public
have voted for Alice Sebold's
The Lovely Bones
(published by Picador)
since January this year, making it the winner of the 'Richard and Judy Best
Read Award' at the British Book Awards last week. It beat the nine other
titles covered in the weekly Richard and Judy Book Club feature, including
Brick Lane by Monica Ali, The Star of the Sea by Joseph
O'Connor, Toast by Nigel Slater and Notes on a Scandal by Zoe
Heller, to become the first ever winner of this award.
Voting closed only a couple of hours before
the glamorous awards ceremony, attended by celebrities as diverse as Jordan
and Alan Titchmarsh. Other award winners included Mark Haddon, Martin
Johnson, David Beckham and Lynne Truss.
Published last June, The Lovely Bones
is a potent debut novel which takes the unusual and violent subject of
the rape and murder of a fourteen year old girl and succeeds in weaving a
strikingly peaceful story about the power of redemptive love.
http://www.panmacmillan.com/books/lovelybones/default.html
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