Angela Jackson wins Edinburgh Book Festival First Book Award

A massive congratulations to Angela Jackson who is the winner of the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival's First Book Award with, her wonderful debut, THE EMERGENCE OF JUDY TAYLOR. 

Out of a total of 42 nominees, Angela's debut was voted favourite by both festival goers and the general public. 

Tim Lennox, managing director of prize sponsor, eBooks by Sainsbury's, saiad "For us The Emergence of Judy Taylor marks another emergence: that of a remarkable new talent in British writing. We're proud to have played a part in recognising Jackson’s potential at the start of what we expect to be a long and distinguished career."

The Emergence of Judy Taylor, published by Constable & Robinson, centres around the eponymous Judy – a woman who decides to stop taking the path of least resistance and start making choices about her life. The book explores the themes of complex relationships, change, loss and what it means to belong to a place. It poses questions about what it means to really live. It’s about patterns and choice. It’s about love and life and sex and starlings. It’s about glimpsing the future and being given a second chance. It’s about the weight of responsibility and the guilt of buoyancy. It’s about what happens in small towns and big cities.