Study for Obedience
by Sarah Bernstein
Competition
We’re offering you the chance to win one of five bundles made up of all six shortlisted titles in contention for this year’s Booker Prize
This competition is now closed
To celebrate the announcement of the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist, we are giving you the chance to win a set of all six titles that are in contention for this year’s prize.
The judges are looking for the best work of long-form fiction, selected from entries published in the UK and Ireland between October 1 2022 and September 30 2023. The shortlist of six books was announced on September 21, 2023, at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The winner of the £50,000 prize will be announced at an event at Old Billingsgate, London, on November 26, 2023.
Chair of Judges Esi Edugyan said this year’s shortlist was ”vibrant, nervy, electric’, adding that the novels invoke ‘a sense of timelessness even while saying something about how we live now.’
We have five sets of the shortlisted books up for grabs. To be in with a chance of winning one set, simply enter your details below by 12:00 BST (UK time) on Friday, October 6, 2023. This competition is open to readers anywhere in the world.
This competition is a free draw, with only one entry allowed per person, and we reserve the right to disqualify any entries where we suspect one person has used a number of different email addresses. Use or attempted use of any automated or other non-manual entry methods is prohibited.
The draw is governed by our general rules for competitions, available here, but the following specifics also apply (and take precedence should there be any contradiction or ambiguity).
Study for Obedience, Sarah Bernstein
‘A stirring meditation on survival and a pointed critique of the demonisation of the outsider.’
If I Survive You, Jonathan Escoffery
‘All of life is here in unflinching detail: the fragility of existence, the American dream and the road not taken’.
‘It’s rare to encounter a work of historical fiction that is at once so lyrical and so empathetic’.
‘Propulsive, unsparing and terribly moving, the book warns of the precarity of democratic ideals’.
‘A mesmerising novel about how silence can reverberate within a family in the aftermath of grief’.
‘Funny, sad and truthful. The characters, with their myriad flaws and problems, are unforgettable’.