Bernardine Evaristo

***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020* SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER This is Britain as you've never seen 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 'Exceptional. 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. You have to order it right now' Stylist

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

Girl, Woman, Other

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Lily Cooper

‘Grace watched Mary walk away, black boots split at the sides, ripped dress trailing the mud of the path, brown shawl wrapped against her shoulders, hair like a bird’s nest with a hat on it, an orange rose Grace had made specially for her stuck on its side

bye-bye, Gracie, she called out, her voice choked, not looking back, as she opened the gate and disappeared down the lane’

Beatrix

she's wearing a light grey pencil skirt and jacket, powder-blue blouse, grey neck-tie, black patent leather court shoes, and her pride

a Cog in the Wheel of Bureaucratic Madness

Sachi

feminism needs tectonic plates to shift. not a trendy make-over

she's got what she needs, not the same as what she wants 

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