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. Her
writing spans reviews, essays, drama and radio, and she has edited
and guest-edited national publications, including The Sunday Time's
Style magazine. Her other awards and honours include an MBE in
2009. 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*
'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*
'Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo is the best book in
recent years to have embodied the idea that there are as many ways
to be joyful as there are to be Black. Polyphonic and nuanced, it
celebrates the lives of Black British women rather than
commiserating with them, which is a crucial - and rare -
distinction.'
*Sara Collins*
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