The Long Song
British novelist, 1956–2019. Won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2004, the Costa Novel Award in 2004 and the Walter Scott Prize in 2011.
The Long Song is a 2010 novel by Andrea Levy. It won the Walter Scott Prize in 2011.
On 2 of the 17 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Andrea Levy
- First published
- 2010
- Length
- 432 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Booker Prize shortlist, 2010
- Walter Scott Prize winner, 2011
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Empire and colonialism, Feminist
Is The Long Song worth reading?
2 of the 17 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Walter Scott Prize and the Booker Prize.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 2010) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Walter Scott Prize (winners and shortlists) (Abbotsford Trust, 2011) | Winner | See the list |
Best edition of The Long Song
The edition we link to is the Tinder Press paperback (2011), 432 pages.
- Publisher
- Tinder Press (paperback, 2011)
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN
- 9780755359424
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Long Song
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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