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Paige’s prize

Paige Cowan-Hall has won the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction Discoveries Prize with her historicalThe story was chosen from almost 3,000 entries and is described as a ‘vividly imagined historical fantasy set in Jamaica, based on the real-world stories of the Maroons, runaway slaves who fought the British and founded the Maroon settlements.’

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