The Novel Prize: 2022 winners bundle

The joint winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, Tell is structured as a series of interviews with a woman who worked as a gardener for a wealthy businessman and art collector who has mysteriously disappeared, and may or may not have committed suicide. Buckley’s twelfth novel, Tell is an exuberant, intensely fluid and probing examination of the ways in which we make stories of our own and of other people’s lives.

The heroine of this haunting, spare novel is voraciously alive in the afterlife. She heads west and into mind-boggling adventures, carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest. Joint winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over is one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, a tale for our dispossessed times.