Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people.
Bernardine Evaristo is the author of Lara, winner of the Emma Best Book Award in 1999, The Emperor's Babe and Soul Tourists. She is a former Poet in Residence at the Museum of London, and her work has been widely anthologized. She won a prestigious Arts Council Writers Award in 2000.
Beautifully interwoven stories of identity, race, womanhood, and
the realities of modern Britain. The characters are so vivid,
the writing is beautiful and it brims with humanity.
-- Nicola Sturgeon via Twitter
Weaves through time and space with crackling originality * Vogue
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Exuberant, bursting at the seams in delightful ways...
Evaristo continues to expand and enhance our literary canon. If
you want to understand modern day Britain, this is the writer to
read * New Statesman *
An exceptional book that unites poetry, social history, women's
voices and beyond. Order it right now * Stylist *
Evaristo's prose hums with life as characters seem to step off the
page fully formed. At turns funny and sad, tender and true, this
book deserves to win awards * Red *
Brims with vitality * FT *
With this rich composition, Evaristo deserves a toast *
Literary Review *
Masterful... A choral love song to black womanhood in modern
Great Britain * Elle *
'Girl, Woman, Other is about struggle, but it is also about
love, joy and imagination. * Guardian *
Threads together the diverse life stories of 12 black British women
in ways that deliberately resist categorisation * Metro *
Such a satisfying read, funny and true, the characters are
so real you feel you know them already -- Miranda Sawyer via
Twitter
A warm, humorous and ambitious novel, and one that is
enjoyably playful in style. It is both a product of its time
and unlike any book ever written about Britain * Economist *
My favorite book of 2019 . . . the most absorbing book I read
all year. This novel is a master class in storytelling. It
is absolutely unforgettable. When I turned the final page, I
felt the ache of having to leave the world Evaristo created but I
also felt the excitement of getting to read the book all over
again. It should have won the Booker alone. It deserves all the
awards and then some. -- Roxanne Gay
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