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Keeper

by Andrea Gillies

Orwell Prize · 2010 · Winner
NonfictionISBN 9781906021658

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Orwell Prize for Political Writing2010Winner

About the Author

Andrea Gillies is a British author born in York, England, known for her memoir Keeper (2009), which chronicles living with her mother-in-law's Alzheimer's disease and won the Wellcome Book Prize and the Orwell Prize, as well as her novels The White Lie (2012) and The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay (2014) [Andrea Gillies website], [BookBrowse]. She blends non-fiction and literary fiction, exploring family dynamics and psychological depth [Fantastic Fiction].

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