Hannah Freeman 

Women’s prize for fiction: Who will win?

Who do you think should win the Women's prize for fiction 2013? Could it be another win for Hilary Mantel, or will Zadie Smith triumph?
  
  

Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith and Barbara Kingsolver
Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith and Barbara Kingsolver. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/Rex/Sarah Lee Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/Rex/Sarah Lee

Tonight, the winner of the Women's prize for fiction - formerly the Orange prize, soon to be the Baileys prize - will be chosen. The shortlist is as follows:

Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel - the second book in her Cromwell trilogy and the Bookies' favourite to win.

Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver - a cli-fi novel billed by her publishers as ' Kingsolver's most accessible novel yet'.

Where'd You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple - Justine Jordan, our fiction editor, enjoyed it when she reviewed it, but is it a winner?

• Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson - a favourite on the books desk, it explores Ursula's many possible lives.

• May We Be Forgiven, by AM Homes - reviewer Viv Groskop says it 'sometimes reads like a brilliant miniseries. I gorged on it like a DVD boxset.'

NW, by Zadie Smith - a novel about contemporary London life. After being overlooked by the Booker prize, could Smith bag a Women's prize to go with her previous Orange win in 2006?

We'll be covering the announcement live from the awards ceremony at the South Bank, London (it's a tough job, but someone has to do it), and will tweet the winner via @guardianbooks, before our comment and news pieces land on the site, but until then, who do you think will scoop the £30,000 prize this year? Could it be another win for Mantel? Over to you.

 

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