If you'd like to see what they are, have a look at the OPF website - www.orangeprize.co.uk
This is the downside of shadowing a literary prize - the moment at which the shortlist overtakes your reading and you're looking at the next book in the to-read pile and thinking - but isn't that one a bit of a loser? Yet if I look back on previous Orange prizes I can find ones that didn't make it from the longlist, but which still gave me pleasure - The Lovely Bones in 2003; Niagara Falls all over again and The Secret Life of Bees in 2002; and what about 1999, when Mantel's The Giant O'Brien didn't get onto the shortlist, and Kingsolver's masterly and still-loved Poisonwood Bible didn't win?
So - I'll still add my comments on the books I've enjoyed but which haven't got to the last 6 ... and try to get my hands on the remaining 3 which I haven't yet read!
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