Nikita Lalwani's Gifted Glitters at the Desmond Elliot Prize 2008

Nikita Lalwani was tonight (Thursday, 26th June) named the winner of the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for Gifted, a story about a maths prodigy growing up in 1980s Cardiff, published by Penguin Books. Penny Vincenzi, Chair of the Judges, said: “Gifted is a book of extraordinary range; it is touching, tender, funny and at the …