This separation or segregation of women’s writing should be understood as part of the patriarchal control of what and who matters – and, historically, women have not.
- Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture, Newcastle University
Escape the romance trap with these heroines.
Male friendship is often overlooked in the 20th-century novel, but in her Booker short-listed novel Yanagihara places it centre.
The book prize is the publisher’s answer to the persistent grumble that fiction is in its death throes; an attempt to combat the perceived threat of the digital.
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