And the winner is …

And the Winner of the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction 2015 is …

Ali Smith: How to be Both

Many congratulations to Ali Smith and all writers on this list.

Here is the shortlist for the Bailey Prize.

• Rachel Cusk: Outline
• Laline Paull: The Bees
• Kamila Shamsie: A God in Every Stone
• Ali Smith: How to be Both
• Anne Tyler: A Spool of Blue Thread
• Sarah Waters: The Paying Guests

These books were on the longlist:

• Lissa Evans: Crooked Heart
• Patricia Ferguson: Aren’t We Sisters?
• Xiaolu Guo: I Am China
• Samantha Harvey: Dear Thief
• Emma Healey: Elizabeth is Missing
• Emily St. John Mandel: Station Eleven
• Grace McCleen: The Offering
• Sandra Newman: The Country of Ice Cream Star
• Heather O’Neil: The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
• Marie Phillips: The Table of Less Valued Knights
• Rachel Seiffert: The Walk Home
• Sara Taylor: The Shore
• Jemma Wayne: After Before
• PP Wong: The Life of a Banana

Congratulations to the winner. But we’re all winners really: lots of lovely reading!

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