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Posted on 20 July 2010
A Faber title has won the Orange Prize for Fiction for the first time with Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna this evening (9th June) taking home the £30,000 prize.

Sceptre author Irene Sabatini was awarded the £10,000 Orange Prize for New Writers award for her novel The Boy Next Door. The prize celebrates its 15th anniversary this year.

Jonathan Ruppin at Foyles said "We've found this by far the bestselling title on the shortlist. It's a daunting read, which fans of her hugely popular previous novel, The Poisonwood Bible, won't all take to, but it's a book which rewards patient reading.

"It would be good to see more British writers and more women coming up with fiction as ambitious as this."

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