Novel
Category Winner:
Reservoir 13 by Roy McGregor
Midwinter
in the early years of this century. A
teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the
search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a
crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be
done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons
written, a pantomime rehearsed. The
search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday life. As it must.
Reservoir 13 explores the
rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence,
unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a stranger’s tragedy refuse
to subside.
First Novel
Category Winner:
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Meet
Eleanor Oliphant struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say
exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is
missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding unnecessary human contact,
where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with
Mummy. But everything changes when
Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her
office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has
fallen, the three rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each
been living. Ultimately, it is Raymond's
big heart that will help Eleanor find the way to repairing her own profoundly
damaged one.
For more
information about winning books and authors, go to https://www.costa.co.uk/media/487568/2017-awards.pdf.
The Costa
Book of the Year will be announced on January 30, 2018.
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