James Kearney reports that:

>The Whitbread prize is a prestigious British literary award.  Its
>categories include fiction, biography, poetry and children's writing.
>David Cairns' "Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness" deservedly won the
>biography award on 6 January.  ...

I have not seen it yet, but this book covers Berioz' life from 1832 to
1869, following by ten years Cairns' Berlioz: 1803-1832: The Making of
an Artist (1989).  What I want to know is whether the prize is for both
volumes and if the writing in the second volume is considered to be an
advance over the initial volume.  Any discussion of that in the early
reviews?

Jim Tobin