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Three books on the shortlist - and we'll know the winner on 28 June
 
  
 
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|title=The Land of Decoration
 
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|summary= Harold and Maureen Fry were unremarkable: one long marriage, one adult offspring and a long retirement stretching out in front of them like a prison sentence.  One morning everything changed.  The catalyst was a letter from Queenie, an ex-colleague of Harold's.  He knew he needed to respond and thought that posting a letter would suffice. However, a chat with a girl at the local petrol station made him realise that a letter couldn't be enough.  He had to provide Queenie with hope... he had to walk.
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|summary=Grace McCleen's debut novel, ''The Land of Decoration'' paints an original, unsettling, sometimes dark and generally rather wonderful picture. Narrated by ten year old Judith, raised by her father who is a fundamental religious follower of the end of the world is nigh variety, it looks at bullying, both at school and in more general society, faith and the possible rejection thereof and the strength of childhood imagination.   
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520644</amazonuk>
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070118681X</amazonuk>
 
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'''Other books on the shortlist'''
  
 
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|author=Grace McCleen
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|author=Rachel Joyce
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|title=The Land of Decoration
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|title=The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
 
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|genre=Literary Fiction
 
|genre=Literary Fiction
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|summary=Grace McCleen's debut novel, ''The Land of Decoration'' paints an original, unsettling, sometimes dark and generally rather wonderful picture. Narrated by ten year old Judith, raised by her father who is a fundamental religious follower of the end of the world is nigh variety, it looks at bullying, both at school and in more general society, faith and the possible rejection thereof and the strength of childhood imagination.   
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|summary= Harold and Maureen Fry were unremarkable: one long marriage, one adult offspring and a long retirement stretching out in front of them like a prison sentence.  One morning everything changed.  The catalyst was a letter from Queenie, an ex-colleague of Harold's.  He knew he needed to respond and thought that posting a letter would suffice. However, a chat with a girl at the local petrol station made him realise that a letter couldn't be enough.  He had to provide Queenie with hope... he had to walk.
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070118681X</amazonuk>
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520644</amazonuk>
 
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