![]() The White Family continues this honourable list of concerns, exploring racism, domestic violence, cancer, old age, sibling rivalry and multiculturalism in equal measure, no mean feat in a novel of just over 400 pages. ![]() Gee has not been one to shirk the responsibilities of the writer - she’s addressed issues such as Hiroshima, global warming, homelessness, and the nuclear industry in previous novels. Maggie Gee’s eighth novel continues her fictional analysis of the social problems of contemporary England, and does so with the deftness and sureness of touch that readers already familiar with her work have come to expect. ![]() The top prize is a cheque for £30,000, which is anonymously donated every year. The Orange Prize goes to the best novel of the year written by a woman in English and published in the UK. Short Listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002. ![]()
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