Anna and Geoff discuss their Booker Prize winner predictions.
We haven't read enough of the shortlist to know who will win, but
Geoff is tipping THE LAND IN WINTER (a DNF for Anna).
Our book of the week is FLASHLIGHT
by Susan Choi. This is Choi’s follow-up novel after winning the
National Book Award for TRUST EXERCISE. It is a sweeping family
saga set in America, Japan and Korea. Shortlisted for the
2025 Booker Prize, we could not say we loved this one but it got us
talking.
How much cat litter detail is too much? Would Tobias
really have gone to Japan or would he be trekking around Nepal?
Could we read a whole novel of Serk? How many unlikeable characters
in a novel is too many? And we revisit 'that year' when
Margaret Atwood and Bernadine Evaristo won jointly.