Children of ParadiseLonglisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction When Holly applies for a job at the Paradiseone of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the ground floor of a block of flatsshe thinks it will be like any other shift work. She cleans toilets, sweeps popcorn, avoids the belligerent old owner, Iris, and is ignored by her aloof but tight knit colleagues who seem as much a part of the building as its fraying carpets and endless dirt. Dreadful, lonely