The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell has sold more copies than any other title on the 2023 Women’s prize for fiction shortlist in the run-up to the announcement of the winner.
The historical novel sold 72,819 copies by the first week of June, according to trade magazine The Bookseller. The winner of the Women’s prize – which rewards the best novel from the past year written by a woman and published in the UK – is due to be revealed on Wednesday at a ceremony in London.
