Orange Prize Readings at St Andrews Library
St Andrews Library,
Church Square, St Andrews
7.30pm
£2
St Andrews Library is hosting an event to coincide with the results of Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007. The Orange Prize is offered to the best novel written by a woman writer. Members of library Reading Groups will be reading extracts from the six short-listed books. On the night you can vote for your favourite before the official winner is announced.
The books in the running are Half of a Yellow Sun by C N Adichie, Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk, The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo, The Observations by Jane Harris and Digging to America by Anne Tyler.
Booking is required: tel. 01334 659378
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Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley takes a job as a maid in a big house outside Edinburgh working for the beautiful Arabella. Bessy is intrigued by her new employer, but puzzled by her increasingly strange requests.