Everyone has their favourites and it's easy to carp about novels the judges missed, but the truth is we don't know which ones they consider the list of 150-odd titles is never made public and probably any number of subterranean factors determines its makeup.
And awards now brands in themselves seek to establish their own identities: was Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead crossed off the list after winning the Pulitzer and Women's prizes for fiction?
Paul Harding's This Other Eden. Drawing on the true story of the forced eviction of a mixed-race island community in New England before the first world war, it may have Edugyan's vote but I think it's a novel that's hard to love.
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