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How To Be Human By Paula Cocozza Longlisted For Desmond Elliott Prize
Paula Cocozza's How to be Human, her debut novel about a woman's obsession with an urban fox, has been longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize.
The Desmond Elliott committee praised the novel as 'Anthropomorphism made eloquence, realism made magical.'
For more information, please see here.
(Agent for Paula Cocozaa: Natasha Fairweather)
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