Charlotte Higgins, Arts correspondent, The Guardian, Wednesday June 4, 2008
Captured the zeitgeist ... Rose Tremain. Photograph: Ulf Andersen / Getty
Rose Tremain is one of Britain's most celebrated authors, and yet her latest novel, the recipient of rave reviews, was not even longlisted for the Man Booker prize. So tonight it was a case of patience rewarded when Tremain won the £30,000 Orange Broadband prize for fiction for The Road Home.
Broadcaster Kirsty Lang, the chair of the judges, said, "We were all very impressed by the novel's main character and the empathy with which she has written him. We liked the cast of characters, and, though it could have been a 'worthy' book, it wasn't."
Broadcaster Kirsty Lang, the chair of the judges, said, "We were all very impressed by the novel's main character and the empathy with which she has written him. We liked the cast of characters, and, though it could have been a 'worthy' book, it wasn't."
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