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World Book Day Thursday 6 March 2008
- Visit: World Book Day (external link) for details of this initiative to draw attention to less well-known novels by living authors
Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2008
- Winner - Freya North - 'Pillow Talk'
- Pillow Talk was chosen from a shortlist of six books as the winner of the 2008 award by a judging panel which comprised comedienne Helen Lederer, Good Housekeeping books editor Kerry Fowler, and Chris Rushby, buying director of Bertrams.
- The book is about sleepwalking jeweller Petra Flint, and insomniac musician Arlo Savidge, whose teenage love affair is reawakened by a chance encounter. Lederer said: “These two people really are destined to meet again, and I know that they will spend the rest of their lives together, truly happily. I felt I had been allowed to get to know and care about this couple, with all their vulnerabilities, which made the ending so much more heartening and satisfying.”
- Shortlisted titles were:-
- Catrin Collier - 'One Last Summer'
- Maureen Lee - 'The Leaving of Liverpool'
- Catherine King - 'Silk and Steel'
- Adele Parks - 'Young Wives' Tales'
- Jojo Moyes - 'Silver Bay'
