Donna Tartt is the bookies' favourite, but that's no guarantee – which other nominees would you have a flutter on?
Outside bet? … Jhumpa Lahiri. Photograph: Evan Agostini/Getty Images
Already the winner of the Pulitzer prize for fiction, Donna Tartt is the bookies' favourite to collect £30,000 as the first winner of the Baileys women's prize for fiction. She will be the sixth consecutive American to receive the award for female novelists (previously the Orange prize) if the judging panel pick her novel The Goldfinch, about a bereaved boy and a stolen painting.
Behind Tartt's novel (5/2), Ladbrokes has two debuts, Eimear McBride's Goldsmiths prize-winning story of troubled girlhood, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, and Hannah Kent's Guardian first book award-shortlisted Burial Rites, about the last woman to be executed for murder in Iceland, as joint second favourites on 3/1. Americanah, the story of a Nigerian woman who emigrates to the US, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the only former winner among the finalists, is rated 7/2. She's followed by Audrey Magee's The Undertaking (8/1), set in Nazi Germany, and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland, which moves between India and the US (10/1).
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Behind Tartt's novel (5/2), Ladbrokes has two debuts, Eimear McBride's Goldsmiths prize-winning story of troubled girlhood, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, and Hannah Kent's Guardian first book award-shortlisted Burial Rites, about the last woman to be executed for murder in Iceland, as joint second favourites on 3/1. Americanah, the story of a Nigerian woman who emigrates to the US, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the only former winner among the finalists, is rated 7/2. She's followed by Audrey Magee's The Undertaking (8/1), set in Nazi Germany, and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland, which moves between India and the US (10/1).
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