On Beauty (2006 Winner Of Orange Prize; 2005 Man Booker)

Description: Set in New England mainly and London partly, 'On Beauty' concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family. Prizes: Winner of Orange Prize 2006. Winner of Somerset Maugham Award 2006. Shortlisted for British Book Awards: Writer of the Year 2006. Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005. Author Biography: Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975, and still lives in the area. She is the author of White Teeth, The Autograph Man and On Beauty.