The judges said they were particularly taken with the sentence: “Like a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect with a too blunt pin he screwed himself into her.” Other amorous passages contained a female body part “upturned like the nose of the loveliest nocturnal animal, sniffing the night” and described how one character “twisted onto her belly like a fish flipping itself”. Somerville said:
“What an honour to share a list with Jonathan Franzen and Christos Tsiolkas. There is nothing more English than bad sex, so on behalf of the entire nation I would like to thank you.”
Other previous winners have included the novelists Norman Mailer, Sabastian Faulks and Tom Wolfe.
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