Booker Prize: A look at the contenders
Wanderer in wonder of space and time
From an aviatrix lost to history to climate crisis anxiety, the novels shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction weave together past, present and a bleak future. Who will win the £50,000 (S$92,600) prize on Nov 3? The Sunday Times reviews the six books on the shortlist and speaks to two of their authors
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Nine years ago, American writer Maggie Shipstead was travelling in New Zealand when she came across a statue of the aviatrix Jean Batten, who in 1936 completed the first solo flight from England to New Zealand.
At its base was the quote: "I was destined to be a wanderer."
