Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport was an obvious choice for the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize, which honors “fiction at its most novel.” Jury chair Erica Wagner said, “In her gripping and hypnotic book, Ellmann remakes the novel and expands the reader’s idea of what is possible with the form.” (In a separate essay, fellow judge Anna Leszkiewicz writes about why Ducks, Newburyport is the winner.) – New Statesman