Fred & Edie
British novelist, born 1962.
Fred & Edie is a 2000 novel by Jill Dawson. It was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award in 2000.
On 2 of the 21 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Jill Dawson
- First published
- 2000
- Length
- 288 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Costa Novel Award shortlist, 2000
- Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, 2001
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Crime, Love story
Is Fred & Edie worth reading?
2 of the 21 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2000) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2001) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of Fred & Edie
The edition we link to is the Sceptre paperback (2006), 288 pages.
- Publisher
- Sceptre (paperback, 2006)
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN
- 9780340936283
How critics, prizes and readers rate Fred & Edie
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 33% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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