Girl, Woman, Other

Bernardine Evaristo is the AngloNigerian awardwinning author of several books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora: past present real imagined. Her novel Girl Woman Other won the Booker Prize in 2019. Her writing also spans short fiction reviews essays drama and writing for BBC radio. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She was made an MBE in 2009. As a literary activist for inclusion Bernardine has founded a number of successful initiatives including Spread the Word writer development agency (1995ongoing): the Complete Works mentoring scheme for poets of colour (20072017) and the Brunel International African Poetry Prize (2012ongoing).www.bevaristo.comBeautifully 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.Weaves through time and space with crackling originalityExuberant 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 readAn exceptional book that unites poetry social history womens voices and beyond. Order it right nowEvaristos 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 awardsBrims with vitalityWith this rich composition Evaristo deserves a toastMasterful... A choral love song to black womanhood in modern Great BritainGirl Woman Other is about struggle but it is also about love joy and imagination.Threads together the diverse life stories of 12 black British women in ways that deliberately resist categorisationSuch a satisfying read funny and true the characters are so real you feel you know them alreadyA 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 BritainMy 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.***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThis is Britain as youve 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 twentyfirst Girl Woman Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. Theyre 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 .