The Marriage Portrait
British novelist, born 1972. Won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020, the British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year in 2021 and the Costa Novel Award in 2010.
The Marriage Portrait is a 2022 novel by Maggie O'Farrell. It was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2023.
On 3 of the 12 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Maggie O'Farrell
- First published
- 2022
- Length
- 448 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, 2023
- British Book Awards Fiction shortlist, 2023
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Love story, Feminist, Gothic
Is The Marriage Portrait worth reading?
3 of the 12 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the British Book Awards' Fiction Book of the Year and Waterstones Book of the Year (winners and shortlists).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (The Bookseller, 2023) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Waterstones Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (Waterstones, 2012-) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2023) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of The Marriage Portrait
The edition we link to is the Tinder Press paperback (2023), 448 pages.
- Publisher
- Tinder Press (paperback, 2023)
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN
- 9781472223883
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Marriage Portrait
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 33% of the points available on prize lists, against 17% on readers' and booksellers' lists and 0% on critics' 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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