Women's Prize 2021 - Longlist to shortlist

It's interesting to see and know that the Women writers are on the rise, and there are special awards for them now, given how Jane Austin and many until then wrote disguised as men. 

From my bibliotherapist Eric Carl Anderson https://lonesomereader.com/

and his discussion with Anna James, it was quite interesting to realize,  we are all contradictions. Anna's shortlist and Eric's shortlist had three in common, and three uncommon. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agHEMaTPB_g Chapters: 

• 0:00​ Introduction
• 3:10​ The Vanishing Half 
• 10:00​ Small Pleasures
• 18:13​ Piranesi
• 23:30​ The Golden Rule 
• 27:05​ Exciting Times
• 33:09​ Burnt Sugar
• 40:08​ Because of You
• 43:18​ Unsettled Ground
• 49:09​ Transcendent Kingdom
• 54:26​ How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
• 57:03​ Luster
• 1:02:24​ No One is Talking About This
• 1:09:47​ Consent
• 1:16:09​ Nothing But Blue Sky
• 1:23:12​ Detransition, Baby
• 1:28:36​ Summer
• 1:31:43​ Our Personal Shortlists
• 1:33:42​ Joint Shortlist Prediction

Reviews of the all the longlisted novels: 

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2020/...​ Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...​ Piranesi by Susanna Clarke https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...​ The Golden Rule by Amanda Craig https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...​ Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2020/...​ Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2020/...​ Because of You by Dawn French https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...​ Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...​ Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...​ How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...​ Luster by Raven Leilani https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...​ No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...​ Consent by Annabel Lyon https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...​ Nothing But Blue Sky by Kathleen MacMahon https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...​ Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...​ Summer by Ali Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB81E...

so the predictions in collaboration where:

• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
• Luster by Raven Leilani similar to Exciting Times. 
• Prediction is Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller 

Prediction is Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - so different from other books, Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller - where common choice, and  Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi was liked by Eric, but not Anna and No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood was liked by Anna but not Eric. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi was one both like. 

Shortlist is going to be announce on 28th at 6.30 pm, and winner will be announce on July 7th with six nationalities represented and six debuts this year.