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Queenie
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Shvorne Marks
About this listen
BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
'Brilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking' Jojo Moyes
'A must-read novel about sex, selfhood, and the best friendships that get us through it all' Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City
Queenie is a twenty-five-year-old Black woman living in south London, straddling Jamaican and British culture whilst slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers, and beg to write about Black Lives Matter. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie finds herself seeking comfort in all the wrong places.
As Queenie veers from one regrettable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be? - the questions that every woman today must face in a world that keeps trying to provide the answers for them.
A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, Queenie will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way. A disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive tale that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and acceptance and found something very different in its place.©2019 Candice Carty-Williams (P)2019 Orion Publishing Group Ltd
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- Wednesday's Child
- 07-11-2020
What a magnificent read! Init? 😉
This is a loveable, heartbreaking, frustrating, funny, insightful story of one woman's battle with mental illness (although it is never said, I think it might be PTSD) and racism. Now if I had read that in a review I probably wouldn't have picked up this title - ignore the impulse to move on - this book is a must-read!
This is such a good book. At first, I was unsure if this was for me, but after listening to it twice, I am convinced that you won't regret a listen too. I enjoyed this book from beginning to end, through and through!
The narrator nails the various accents and different characters' personalities like a pro. She brings life to the veritable feast of characters and a beautiful story to boot!
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- Anonymous User
- 01-09-2020
So engaging!
Loved every second. All of the characters were so well developed and the narration was excellent.
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- Phreddie
- 07-10-2020
A must read
So good .
More titles please Candice Carty-Williams.
The story and characters were just so well presented ,and overall the book was as funny as a hat full of monkeys.
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- Tina Molloy
- 19-05-2022
Fantastic listen
I loved this book, I have not read anything quite like it. Queenie is a wonderful and complex character, and I did not want her story to end.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-05-2019
I loved this book!
Great character development. Interesting story with many layers. Highly recommend! x x x x x
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- Janette J Ryan
- 27-09-2020
Disfunctional families breed disfunctional kids
What happens in childhood comes back to bite you in adulthood
Children marry the wrong people because they are repeating their parents mistakes
Queenie had the additional burden of being a minority race in a very racial society
I find this racial intolerance hard to understand when the majority race caused the problem in the first place by trading in black slavery!
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- Ejidiah nyambura
- 19-07-2021
Great book
Couldn’t get enough of this book and absolutely loved how well it’s been narrated . Could listen twice…
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- Anonymous User
- 12-09-2019
Laughed, snorted and cried a river
Wow. Wow. Wow. Queenie, the most relatable, frustrating, lovable, devastating, inspiring book I've read this year. The narrator's performance was amazing! Her twang and accents were so on point. The family and patois was so realistic, relatable and hilarious. Felt so connected to Queenie and especially to such a raw realistic portrayal of panic and anxiety. I literally bawled for the last 8 chapters. Thank you so much for this incredible book, what a movie this would make! am here for it all xx
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- Sarah dunne
- 14-02-2020
Important message
Although an easy read I didn't find it a page turner. That being said, I'm very glad I saw the book through and would still recommend as it holds a very important message relating to race, sexism and sex culture in the modern day. Some that I haven't personally experienced and feel happy to now be more aware of and others that very much resonated with me.
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- Carol Welsh
- 19-04-2022
Wonderful
A wonderfully engaging book about a young mid 20s black woman in London navigating a broken heart and issues of abandonment whilst looking for love in the wrong places. The Jamaican culture and humour /irony add to the enjoyment....its a great listen. Thank you audible 5/5☆
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