Marion Coutts wins Wellcome Prize 2015

Congratulations to Marion Coutts, who has been awarded the Wellcome Book Prize 2015 for her memoir on art, work, death and language, THE ICEBERG.

The Wellcome Book Prize is an annual award, open to new works of fiction or nonfiction that engage with some aspect of medicine, health or illness. 

Chair of Judges Bill Bryson says of the book: "From an extremely strong shortlist of books that blend exquisite writing with scientific rigour and personal experience, 'The Iceberg' stood out. Marion Coutts' account of living with her husband's illness and death is wise, moving and beautifully constructed. Reading it, you have the sense of something truly unique being brought into the world - it stays with you a long time after."