Novel about Alzheimer's on Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist
Published 22 April 2009
Samantha Harvey's debut novel, The Wilderness, has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
The Wilderness focuses on Jake, a man in his 60s with Alzheimer's, desperately trying to hold on to his identity. Harvey is one of six authors in the shortlist for this international prize.
The shortlist
- Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman (Picador)
- The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey (Cape)
- The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt (Harvill Secker)
- Molly Fox's Birthday by Deidre Madden (Faber)
- Home by Marilynne Robinson (Virago)
- Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie (Bloomsbury)
The winner will be announced on 3 June 2009.
We wish Samantha the best of luck.
