Lost wins

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Congrats to Cath O’Flynn who has won the Costa first novel award. Yay!

What Was Lost, was named winner of the 2007 Costa first novel award after being longlisted but not winning the Booker and the Orange prize and shortlisted for the Guardian’s first book award.

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2 Comments so far

  1. on 3 January 2008 at 10:24 pm Nick Booth wrote:

    Double Yay - I’m sure Ms O’Flynn would find a meatier word than Yay

  2. on 22 January 2008 at 11:44 am Costa Book of the Year award within grasp for Catherine O’Flynn | Birmingham: It’s Not Shit wrote:

    [...] of news and features. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.Having won the Costa first novel award, Catherine O’Flynn’s What was Lost is now in the running for the Costa Book of the Year [...]

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