LONDON (AP) ¿ English writer Rose Tremain (pictured) won Britain's Orange Prize for fiction by women with a novel about an Eastern European migrant in Britain. "The Road Home" is Tremain's 10th novel and follows the character of Lev, who arrives in Britain with no English and little money.

Kirsty Lang, the judges' chair, said the novel was a "fantastic exercise in empathy''.

"She succeeded in putting herself in the head of an Eastern European migrant in contemporary Britain. She managed to tell the story in a very powerful way. It's a male character ... in his 40s. She absolutely gets inside his head," she said.

Tremain beat five finalists. Montreal-based Heather O'Neill was nominated for "Lullabies for Little Criminals"; Patricia Wood, a Ph.D. student at the University of Hawaii, was nominated for "Lottery''. Tremain wins $60,000.