Amy Arnold has been shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2023 with her second novel, Lori & Joe, published by Prototype. This is Amy’s second shortlisting, following her debut Slip of a Fish, which was also the inaugural winner of the Northern Book Prize.
Tom Lee, chair of the judges, said of the novel: ‘Written in prose of astonishing musicality and resonance, Lori & Joe captures precisely the ebb and flow of a woman’s thoughts as she walks the Cumbrian fells following her husband’s sudden death. At first a seemingly quiet and meditative novel, the story that unfolds is anything but quiet – an unforgettable and devastating portrait of regret, secrets and harm amid a landscape of haunting beauty.’
The Goldsmiths Prize was founded in 2013 to ‘reward fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form’. The winner will be announced on 8th November.