Kate Atkinson arrived upon the literary scene when her debut novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum unexpectedly won the 1995 Whitbread book of the year prize (renamed Costa Award n 2006), beating the favourites, Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh and Roy Jenkins' Gladstone.
Smith, Kevin P., M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo. "Kate Atkinson". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 September 2002; last revised 03 September 2016.
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