Hilary Mantel’s Costa Prize win for Novel of the Year! The judges sum up the conclusion of countless readers and reviewers in 2012: ‘Quite simply the best novel of the year.’ http://www.costabookawards.com/media/8017/2012novelaward.pdf
The overall winner for the Costa Book of the Year, chosen from the five category winners (Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry, Children’s) will be announced later this month. The bookies have Mantel as 5/4 favourite to win.
Hilary has dominated the ‘Best of 2012’ round-ups in the US and UK. Isn’t that a wonderful start to the year?