Barbara Kingsolver‘s THE LACUNA finally overtook Hilary Mantel’s well-lauded WOLF HALL in winning the UK’s Orange Prize. Chair of the judges Daisy Goodwin said, “We had very different tastes on the panel, but in the end we went for passion not compromise. We chose ‘The Lacuna’ because it is a book of breathtaking scale and shattering moments of poignancy.”Irene Sabatini‘s THE BOY NEXT DOOR won the Orange Award for New Writers.Site Book-of-the-Month Club’s 2009 First Fiction Award has gone to Robert Goolrick‘s A RELIABLE WIFE (Algonquin), which they call “an astonishingly accomplished and intriguing historical fiction novel in which nothing […]