[Chris O'Carroll]

No 4285
By Leonora Casement
In the 1950s, we ran a competition in which we asked people to imagine how a well-known novelist would write about their hero or heroine winning the pools. We want you to think about how a novelist writing today would describe a character winning the lottery. Here’s Peter Sheldon’s D H Lawrence: “She watched from behind the lace curtains in Scargill Street as his black figure came shamblingly up the path from the Bottoms . . . Her hands tightened on the little envelope . . . She would not tell him yet, before he had had his supper . . .”
Max 150 words by 25 July comp@newstatesman.co.uk