![]() ![]() Thus it was with great joy that I discovered it was shortlisted and immediately after the announcement I sat down to begin it. I did, however, spend a great deal of time reading up on the longlisted books, and having read the blurb from Outline it was certainly the one that appealed to me most. Put simply, with the number of books I have left from the BBC Big Read, I just didn’t have the time to delve into the twenty-strong longlist, and so waited until the judges had selected their six. And as much as I would like to say I’m on friendly terms with the judges, alas I am not, and am as much in the dark as my readers when it comes to which book will take this year’s prize.īack in March when the longlist for the Baileys Prize was announced, I promised myself that this year I would wait for the shortlist before reading any of the contenders for this year’s prize. ![]() ![]() Prior to reviewing the six books shortlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize, and in the interest of total transparency, I should probably mention that despite working for the Prize, neither my reviews nor my opinions on the books hold any bearing whatsoever on the likelihood of them winning the prize. ![]()
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