Addressing the significance of the work of the prize, which has beforehand gone to Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead, Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet and Madeline Miller’s The Song Of Achilles, Mosse mentioned: “There remains to be an inclination for ladies to learn books that they like, whether or not they’re by ladies or by males, and male readers, not all of them after all, however predominantly, and notably on the planet of fiction, to learn books by males.