Jewish author Sarah Moss has been shortlisted for this year’s £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize.
The writer has been for The Tidal Zone, which tells the story of a family’s dealings with the NHS as they come to terms with their daughter’s unexplained illness.
This is the third consecutive year that Professor Moss, who as well as writing fiction and non-fiction teaches creative writing at the University of Warwick, has been shortlisted, having been in the running in 2016 for Signs for Lost Children and in 2015 for Bodies of Light.
She said she was “really pleased” to be in the running again for the prize, which recognises works of fiction and non-fiction that deal with health, medicine and illness. Her novel, praised by the judges as “stunning and different”, is one of only two works of fiction among the six on the shortlist.
