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The Elected Member

The Elected Member
TheElectedMember.jpg
First edition cover
Author Bernice Rubens
Country Wales
Language English
Publisher Eyre & Spottiswoode
Publication date
1969
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)

The Elected Member is a Booker Prize-winning novel by Welsh writer Bernice Rubens.

The novel's main character is Norman Zweck, who is addicted to amphetamines and is convinced that he sees silverfish wherever he goes.

The Elected Member won the 1970 Booker Prize for fiction. This made Bernice Rubens the first woman to win the Booker Prize.

Review of The Elected Member from the Booker Blog 'The Guardian'



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