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Girl, Woman, Other

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241987728

  • Length: 666  Minutes

  • RRP: £11.00

Girl, Woman, Other

  • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

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

"The actress Anna-Maria Nabirye projects the characters superbly: she has a full, low timbre and a powerful directness." - The Times

Teeming with life and crackling with energy, told through many distinctive voices, this novel follows the lives of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years. Joyfully polyphonic and sparklingly contemporary, Girl, Woman, Other is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.

Audio updated in January 2020.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241987728

  • Length: 666  Minutes

  • RRP: £11.00

Reviews

  • 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

  • '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

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About the Author

Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo is the Anglo-Nigerian award-winning author of seven other books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora: past, present, real, imagined. Her writing also spans short fiction, reviews, essays, drama and writing for BBC radio. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She was made an MBE in 2009. As a literary activist for inclusion she has founded several successful initiatives including Spread the Word writer development agency (1995 - ongoing); The Complete Works mentoring scheme for poets of colour (2007-2017) and the Brunel International African Poetry Prize (2012 - ongoing). www.bevaristo.com

Bernardine Evaristo

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