Costa Prize 2011 Winner
PURE by Andrew Miller scooped the £30,000 prize this evening. Freya Johnston in The Daily Telegraph said:
This is a tale about “the beauty and mystery of what is most ordinary”, whether those ordinary things are prized by the hero or not. Miller lingers up close on details: sour breath, decaying objects, pretty clothes, flames, smells, eyelashes. He is a close observer of cats. He is also alive to the dramatic possibilities offered by late-18th-century Paris, a fetid and intoxicating city on the brink of revolution.
Read all reviews here.
____________________________________________________________________
Want to know what the critics made of the latest book, film or play? The Omnivore rounds up newspaper reviews, bringing you a cross section of critical opinion. Sign up to our newsletter.
