Tricia Dower and Pauline Holdstock Shortlisted for Victoria Book Prize

By Westwood Creative ArtistsOctober 13, 2016News

cover of The Hunter and The Wild Girl by Pauline Holdstock WCA is proud to have two authors on the 2016 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize shortlist. Tricia Dower for her novel Becoming Lin, a powerful story of self-discovery and sacrifice set in the socio-political chaos of 1960s rural America. And Pauline Holdstock for The Hunter and the Wild Girl, a dark fairy tale about an unlikely pairing, written in prose compared to Charles Perrault and Gormenghast.

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Tricia Dower and Pauline Holdstock Shortlisted for Victoria Book Prize

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