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The latest odds released by William Hill have put Kennedy at 2-1 with her fifth novel Day, a bold story of a former RAF prisoner-of-war returning to Germany to play the part of a British prisoner of war in a film.

The second place favourite is the historian and biographer Simon Sebag Montefiore, with Young Stalin, at 3-1. Catherine O’Flynn, winner of the First Novel prize with her mystery story What Was Lost, shares third place with the poet Jean Sprackland for her collection, Tilt, at 4-1. And the children's book winner Ann Kelley follows closely with odds of 9-2 for her book The Bower Bird.

Kennedy was one of five category winners of the Costa Book Awards — previously known as the Whitbread prize. More>>