Books by Marcia Hutchinson

The Women’s Prize was set up to highlight the very best of women’s writing—whatever their subject matter. We spoke to Salma El-Wardany, one of this year’s judges, about the six books that made it onto their fiction shortlist: skillfully told novels that will appeal to a wide audience, from Virginia Evan’s heartwarming epistolary novel The Correspondent to Susan Choi’s heavyweight Flashlight, a family saga that sweeps through the decades and across oceans.