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The £30,000 award went to novel A Family Matter, about a lesbian affair and a custody battle
A debut novel exploring the long-term effects of prejudice and secrecy on a lesbian couple in the 1980s has won the Nero Gold prize.
Claire Lynch was presented with the £30,000 award for her book A Family Matter at a ceremony in London on Wednesday evening.
Wood wins the award for fiction for his ‘utterly immersive’ novel Seascraper while Perry picks up the nonfiction prize for her memoir Death of an Ordinary Man
Booker-longlisted author Benjamin Wood has won this year’s Nero book award for fiction for his novel Seascraper.
Meanwhile, Claire Lynch won the debut fiction category for A Family Matter, and Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man took the nonfiction prize. Jamila Gavin was awarded the children’s fiction prize for My Soul, A Shining Tree.