![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And now comes Lila, the third Gilead novel it is a finalist for this year’s National Book award, announced this month, and many people consider it a favourite to win. Four years later she returned to the fictional terrain of Gilead, Iowa, with Home, which won the Orange prize for fiction. In 2004, she unexpectedly published a second novel, Gilead, which won the Pulitzer prize, and was widely extolled. For the next 25 years she published no fiction, but several essays and two non-fiction books: Mother Country, a controversial account of the disaster at what is now Sellafield, and The Death of Adam, a collection of provocative polemical essays. I n 1980, Marilynne Robinson published her first novel, Housekeeping, which was hailed as an instant classic. ![]()
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