Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people.
Bernardine Evaristo, MBE, is the award-winning author of eight
books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the
African diaspora.
Her novel Girl, Woman, Other made her the first black woman to win
the Booker Prize in 2019, as well winning the Fiction Book of the
Year Award at the British Book Awards in 2020, where she also won
Author of the Year, and the Indie Book Award. She also became the
first woman of colour and black British writer to reach No.1 in the
UK paperback fiction chart in 2020.
In 2025 she was awarded the Women's Prize Outstanding Contribution
Award. Her other awards and honours include an MBE in 2009 and an
OBE in 2020. Her writing spans reviews, essays, drama and radio,
and she has edited and guest-edited national publications,
including The Sunday Time's Style magazine.
Bernardine is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University,
London, and President of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives
in London with her husband.
www.bevaristo.com
Give [Evaristo] more prizes! All the prizes! It has the pace of a
whistle stop tour and yet it seems no detail of the myriad of lives
we encounter is missed.
*Graham Norton via Twitter*
If you haven't discovered [Evaristo] yet, I urge you to read all
and any of her books. Devoured one a day already and ordered more.
Hilarious, compassionate, moving and brutally honest.
*Richard E Grant via Twitter*
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*
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*
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