Prize Women
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  • Published: 8 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241492994
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99

Prize Women

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Paperback
11 Jun 2024
Tr. Paperback
8 Aug 2023
EBook
27 Apr 2023
Audiobook
27 Apr 2023
Hardback
15 May 2023
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On his deathbed in 1920s Toronto, a wealthy man decides to make some trouble . . . An astonishing new novel based on one of history's most shocking untold stories, from the author of The Metal Heart

Lily di Marco and Mae Thebault were once friends. They lived under the same roof and cared for each other's children - they were inseparable.

But the Great Depression changed everything, and both women were forced to make impossible decisions to save themselves from ruin

Ten years later, Lily and Mae couldn't be further apart. And as The Great Stork Derby, the sensational baby making contest with money as the prize, makes headlines around the world the women must face up to their part in it, and the consequences . . .
  • Published: 8 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241492994
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Caroline Lea

Caroline Lea grew up on the island of Jersey. The Glass Woman, her debut, is a gothic thriller set during the Icelandic witch trials. The Metal Heart, a Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month, is an epic Second World War love story; Prize Women reveals a feminist scandal at the heart of the roaring 20s. Her latest novel reimagines Mary Shelley and the writing of Frankenstein.

Also by Caroline Lea

Love, Sex & Frankenstein
The Metal Heart
The Glass Woman
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Praise for Prize Women

Caroline's beautiful writing transported me entirely to another time and land

Susan Fletcher

Lea writes beautifully

The Times

Atmospheric, heart-wrenching, evocative - this is a gorgeously written story about the scars we carry with us, and how they can be overcome

Gytha Lodge

Exquisitely researched, beautifully told

Mary Beth Keane

A highly original and inventive writer

Sunday Times

Praise for Caroline Lea

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Memorable and compelling

Sarah Moss

Enthralling

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