This year the Orange Prize for Fiction is celebrating its 10th year in association with Woman's Hour.听To mark the occasion we're inviting you to vote for your favourite winner. Each of the Orange Prize judges will try in turn to persuade you that their winning novel deserves your vote.
Today,听 Polly Toynbee, columnist and broadcaster, and听chair of the Orange Prize judging panel in听2000 makes a case for Linda Grant's When I Lived in Modern Times.