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13/02/2005
Levy nominated for Romantic Novel of the Year award
Andrea Levy, winner of the Orange Prize and the Whitbread has been shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year award.
Levy has already received widespread praise for Small Island, which tells the story of Hortense and Gilbert, Jamacian newlyweds who arrive in Britain to face hostility and racism.
The award organised by the Romantic Novelists' Association and sponsored by FosterGrant Reading Glasses, is open to any book published in the UK in the past year "which embraces romance in its widest sense".
Also on the shortlist are, A Good Voyage by Katharine Davies, Love and Devotion by Erica James, The Hornbeam Tree by Susan Lewis, The Tenko Club by Elizabeth Noble, and Cecilia Samartin's Ghost Heart.
First prize is st£10,000 and the winner will be announced on the 14th April 2005.
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