Here’s the headline and opening paragraph from The Telegraph, on the winner of the Booker Prize:

‘Depressing Irish saga’ wins the Booker Prize
A desperately bleak Irish family saga featuring a suicide and sexual abuse that has sold barely 3000 copies in the UK in five months emerged as the surprise winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize. The Gathering, by the 45-year-old Dublin writer Anne Enright, was a rank outsider in what was expected to be a fight between Ian McEwan, bidding for his second win, and the New Zealand author Lloyd Jones, shortlisted for his novel Mister Pip.