The Ruth Hadden Memorial Award is a former award for the best first novel published in Britain, which was administered by the Booktrust.
It was awarded in the early 1990s and has now been discontinued.
[1] The award was unusual in that the prize was awarded to a completed manuscript before acceptance by a publisher, and the prize money (in 1994, £2000) went to the publishers of the novel to spend on promoting it.
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