Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different women.
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.
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*
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