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Refreshers contain caffeine. Copyright 2026, The Coca-Cola Company. Sprite is a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company. [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to a very special series here on the Inklings Book Club podcast. My name is Jack Edwards and in this series we will be meeting each of the six shortlisted authors for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2026. I have to say, I've been reading through the shortlist and it is one of the strongest literary prize shortlists I have ever read, and I cannot wait to deep dive it with you. Now, the Women's Prize for Fiction is one of the most successful, influential and popular literary prizes in the world, championing and amplifying women's voices and nurturing a global community of readers. The prize was established in 1996 to highlight the imbalance in coverage, respect, and reverence given to women writers versus their male peers. In doing so, they have created a platform for exceptional writing by women to shine. The prize is awarded annually to the writer with the best full-length novel of the year, written in English and