Annal:1993 Whitbread Book Award for First Novel
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Results of the Whitbread Book Award in the year 1993. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1993 Whitbread-1st Novel winner
- Score: 10.43
Agnes Day has enjoyed the traditional experiences a middle-class upbringing has to offer: a comfortable home she is eager to escape, parents who love and misunderstand her, a terrifying bout of boarding school followed by an impressive and nearly useless university degree. Now she finds herself on her own and embarking on adult life, without a clue as to how that should actually work.
Living with her two best friends in the London suburbs, toiling as a junior editor at an obscure trade magazine, Agnes manages to give a convincing performance that everything is…
