Interesting backstory, but here’s the important paragraph:
In the end, though, we chose Mary Renault’s Fire From Heaven, the first volume of her trilogy about Alexander the Great, because it is exciting and vivid and takes you into an alien world; and Nina Bawden’s Birds on the Trees, a story about a middle-class family in crisis, which is so good, and so true, it reminds one why the words “Hampstead novel” used not to be a term of abuse. Who wins the Lost Booker is now in your hands. I’ve no idea which will triumph. All these books are truly fantastic. But if I had to pick one, it would be Troubles. It’s funny, sad, and beautifully written; it’s prescient, wise, original and unexpectedly eccentric. Vote JG, I say. Or, even better, just read him.
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