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Girl, Woman, Other

By: Bernardine Evaristo
Narrated by: Anna-Maria Nabirye
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Brought to you by Penguin.

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

RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

This is Britain as you've never read 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

'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

'Bernardine Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life' Ali Smith, author of How to be both

'Sparkling, inventive' Sunday Times

'Funny, sad, tender and true, deserves to win awards' Red

'Brims with vitality' Financial Times
'Exceptional. You have to order it right now' Stylist

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019

© Bernardine Evaristo 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2019

African American Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature Inspiring Thought-Provoking

Critic Reviews

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
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
An exceptional book that unites poetry, social history, women's voices and beyond. Order it right now
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
Brims with vitality
With this rich composition, Evaristo deserves a toast
Masterful... A choral love song to black womanhood in modern Great Britain
All stars
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An utterly captivating listen. Excellent narration. Evaristo deserved to win the Booker Prize outright for this compelling masterpiece.

Superlative

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entertaining use of stereotypes, with rich details of clothing, food, housing, somehow put together to tell you about the great diversity that is individuals.

playing with stereotypes

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The story is really catchy, the way she relates all the characters and separated stories is very skilled and unexpected. Loved it.

Excellent !!!

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This is a wonderful book.i transports you into the lives of many women. Then it intricatly weaves a story through their lives. I simply loved this book.

Intricate journey

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I think this was my favourite book I read in 2021. I love how you learn about so many characters from their own perspective, and how they are all interconnected- so you can see their story through the eyes of others aswell.

It made me think about personal and public history, social class, gender norms, inter generational impacts and trauma- all in a very palpable and empathetic way.

Amazing

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