Andrew Miller, previous winner of the Impac Dublin prize and the James Tait Black award, has just scooped the Costa Book Award for Pure, set in pre-Revolutionary Paris. The judges praised Pure for being ‘a rich and brilliant historical novel of death and superstition. It is a morality tale which engrosses with its vivid evocation of pre-revolutionary France.”
Pure is set in 1785 and follows the story of a young engineer, Jean-Baptiste Baratte, – charged with demolishing Paris’s oldest cemetery and removing the corpses.
Read more about the Award ceremony and the judges here, as well as an interview with Andrew Miller here.
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