British author Rose Tremain has won this year's Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction for her tenth novel The Road Home.

Tremain, 65, from London, beat off fierce completion from the likes of Sadie Jones and Caroline Mendelson to scoop the £30,000 prize.

Nancy Huston, Heather O'Neill and Patricia Wood had also been shortlisted for the coveted accolade.

The Road Home tells the story of Lev, an Eastern European migrant worker who travels to England to find a better life for his mother and daughter.

Chair of judges Kirsty Lang said: "The judges felt that this was a powerfully imagined story and a wonderful feat of emotional empathy told with great warmth and humour."

Tremain, whose first novel Sadler's Birthday was published in 1976, was also shortlisted for the prize in 2004

The awards were set up in 1996 to celebrate and promote fiction written by women throughout the world to the widest range of readers possible.

The Orange Prize is awarded to the best novel of the year written in English by a woman.

This year's awards ceremony was held at London's Royal Festival Hall.

Previous winners of the Orange Prize include Zadie Smith's On Beauty and Half of a Yellow Sun by Nigeria's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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