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Girl, Woman, Other
- Narrated by: Anna-Maria Nabirye
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Winner of The Booker Prize 2019
Shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction 2020
The Sunday Times best seller
This is Britain as you've never heard it.
This is Britain as it has never been told.
From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the 20th century to the teens of the 21st, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of 12 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....
Critic Reviews
"The actress Anna-Maria Nabirye projects the characters superbly: she has a full, low timbre and a powerful directness." (The Times)
"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)
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- Nicky Webber
- 23-03-2020
Thoroughly Enjoyable Read
Wonderful portrayal of 12 Black women with razor sharp insight. Their stories told with humour, insight and sometimes confronting conventional attitudes.
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- Alexis SHOREHILL
- 05-06-2020
wow
I loved this book. I want to go back and read it in text. thanks.
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- Kate Strack
- 25-04-2021
Amazing
Got swept up with the characters but also gave new perspective on feminism. Cannot rate enough!
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- Anonymous User
- 01-08-2020
Diverse Black women voices
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.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-04-2020
Clever and poignant.
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.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-11-2022
A Very Easy Listen
This is an interesting book. I flew through it as it was easy to consume with a focus on 12 different characters. But in some ways, the clever way the characters and ideas interlink make this feel more like a short story anthology presented as sociological essays. Again, I enjoyed it very much, but without a central character to really connect to, cannot rate it higher.
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- Bree
- 23-11-2022
I love this book
a brilliantly written novel, womens tales intertwined with such deft exploration of womanhood and feminism.
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- Emily Batchelor
- 26-10-2019
Superlative
An utterly captivating listen. Excellent narration. Evaristo deserved to win the Booker Prize outright for this compelling masterpiece.
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- Elizabeth
- 12-07-2020
playing with stereotypes
entertaining use of stereotypes, with rich details of clothing, food, housing, somehow put together to tell you about the great diversity that is individuals.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-12-2020
Excellent !!!
The story is really catchy, the way she relates all the characters and separated stories is very skilled and unexpected. Loved it.
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