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Best Book of 2005: Zadie Smith’s On Beauty

Caoilinn Hughes

Caoilinn Hughes on why Zadie Smith’s On Beauty is the best book of 2005

Caoilinn Hughes

Caoilinn Hughes’s first novel Orchid & the Wasp won the 2019 Collyer Bristow Prize. Her poetry collection Gathering Evidence won the Irish Times Shine/Strong Award. Her short fiction has been awarded the Moth Short Story Prize and an O. Henry Award. The Wild Laughter, her second novel, is out now.

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