![]() ![]() ![]() One reason Kate Atkinson will never win the Booker is the crime novel thing. Actually it told a bunch of great hanging-in stories under one roof. It told a touching and funny story about characters hanging in there. I would have given the prize two years ago to Jane Gardam for Old Filth. I want my novels to be about people, preferably people who bear up in the face of much angst and still manage a joke or two. I’m against novels for readers more than 12 that feature animals, especially animals that speak English. I never would have given the prize to Yann Martel and the book featuring the talkative tiger in the boat or whatever it was that The Life of Pi was all about. Or something that feels like an allegory. But, too bad, that’s not what usually wins the Booker.īooker committees like stuff that’s either ponderous or precious. She writes absorbing novels in clear prose with just the right number of jokes, tears and mysteries. If I were on the committee that hands out the Man Booker Prize - dream on! - I would already have voted to give Kate Atkinson a couple of cheques. ![]()
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