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  Watershed Fiction: The Winner 08 December 2004  
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The Top 5 titles and the winner...

In a special programme from the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library we announce the winner of Women's Watershed Fiction.

Five of our most highly regarded novelists; Sarah Dunant, Marina Warner, Monica Ali, Jenny Colgan and Jill Dawson each make a case for the Top 5 books.

Jenni asked the live audience to cast their vote for the ultimate winner of Women's Watershed Fiction and that winner is Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice.

The runners up are:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
To Kill A Mocking Birdby Harper Lee
The Women's Room by Marilyn French
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
 
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Top 30 titles
100 plus titles
 
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