{"id":4230,"date":"2013-06-05T19:48:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T19:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/?p=4230"},"modified":"2013-06-05T19:49:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T19:49:38","slug":"a-m-homes-wins-the-2013-womens-prize-for-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/?p=4230","title":{"rendered":"A.M.Homes wins the 2013 Women&#8217;s Prize for Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/May-We-Be-Forgiven-196x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4231\" title=\"May-We-Be-Forgiven-196x300\" src=\"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/May-We-Be-Forgiven-196x300-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>May We Be Forgiven<\/em>, the epic new novel from American writer A.M.Homes has won this year&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Prize (previously known as Orange and shortly to become Baileys).<\/p>\n<p>This substantial, sly and significant book, a kind of family saga but wilder and fare more ambitious than that label suggests, is a worthy winner in a year when the competition included the seemingly unbeatable <em>Bring Up the Bodies <\/em>by Hilary Mantel and other strong contenders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>bookoxygen<em\/> congratulates exceptional writer A.M. Homes on winning this year&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Prize for Fiction. Read a Q &#038; A with her about the winning novel,  <em> May We Be Forgiven<em\/>, on this site by putting the author&#8217;s name or the book title in the search box at the top of this page. [&#8230;] in News and Events<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4234,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}