IT LASTS FOREVER AND THEN IT'S OVER by Anne De Marcken
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Following the universal acclaim for Jessica Au’s exquisite Cold Enough For Snow, I imagine the folks responsible for the Novel Prize found themselves in something of a pickle. How do you follow up near perfection? How can any book live in the shadow of the inaugural winner? In short, it can’t. So they awarded the 2023 prize to two books (both, as it happens, novellas):
IT LASTS FOREVER AND THEN IT'S OVER by Anne De Marcken
IT LASTS FOREVER AND THEN IT'S OVER by Anne…
IT LASTS FOREVER AND THEN IT'S OVER by Anne De Marcken
Following the universal acclaim for Jessica Au’s exquisite Cold Enough For Snow, I imagine the folks responsible for the Novel Prize found themselves in something of a pickle. How do you follow up near perfection? How can any book live in the shadow of the inaugural winner? In short, it can’t. So they awarded the 2023 prize to two books (both, as it happens, novellas):