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Girl, Woman, Other

By: Bernardine Evaristo
Narrated by: Anna-Maria Nabirye
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Brought to you by Penguin.

***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***

RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

This is Britain as you've never read it.
This is Britain as it has never been told.

From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope . . .

'Masterful . . . A choral love song to black womanhood in modern Great Britain' Elle

'Ambitious, flowing and all-encompassing, an offbeat narrative that'll leave your mind in an invigorated whirl... [It] unites poetry, social history, women's voices and beyond.' Stylist

'Bernardine Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life' Ali Smith, author of How to be both

'Sparkling, inventive' Sunday Times

'Funny, sad, tender and true, deserves to win awards' Red

'Brims with vitality' Financial Times
'Exceptional. You have to order it right now' Stylist

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019

© Bernardine Evaristo 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2019

African American Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction World Literature Inspiring Thought-Provoking

Critic Reviews

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
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
An exceptional book that unites poetry, social history, women's voices and beyond. Order it right now
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
Brims with vitality
With this rich composition, Evaristo deserves a toast
Masterful... A choral love song to black womanhood in modern Great Britain
All stars
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Wonderful portrayal of 12 Black women with razor sharp insight. Their stories told with humour, insight and sometimes confronting conventional attitudes.

Thoroughly Enjoyable Read

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I loved this book. I want to go back and read it in text. thanks.

wow

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Got swept up with the characters but also gave new perspective on feminism. Cannot rate enough!

Amazing

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A sweeping novel of present and historical realities of Black women in Britain and beyond. A fabulous portrayal of life, it's challenges with a no holds barred approach towards a diverse range of characters. I'll admit I ended up googling a character map to keep up after not reading for a few days! This was the flaw for me as a reader: too many characters to really connect to which made the story somewhat disjointed. That said, an unforgettable literary feat well-deserving of its critical acclaim.

Diverse Black women voices

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Just like any good book - I couldn't put this down. The narrator became each character seamlessly. I enjoyed the rawness and intergenerational flow - connection and variety of lives merging.

Clever and poignant.

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