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Hilary Mantel
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Black Swan, 382 pp, £6.99, January 1996, ISBN 0 05 299618 2
On the day after Kate Atkinson’s first novel won the Whitbread Prize, the Guardian’s headline read: ‘Rushdie makes it a losing double.’ Thus Rushdie is reminded of his disappointments, Atkinson gets no credit, and the uninformed reader assumes that this year’s Whitbread is a damp squib. But read on. ‘A 44-year-old chambermaid won one of Britain’s leading literary awards last night.’
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