Girl, Woman, Other

Author Bernardine Evaristo
Narrator Anna-Maria Nabirye
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Run Time 11 hours and 7 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Social issues.

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

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020*

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

Critics Review

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
Vogue
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
New Statesman
An exceptional book that unites poetry, social history, women’s voices and beyond. Order it right now
Stylist
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
Red
Brims with vitality
FT
With this rich composition, Evaristo deserves a toast
Literary Review
Masterful… A choral love song to black womanhood in modern Great Britain
Elle
‘Girl, Woman, Other is about struggle, but it is also about love, joy and imagination.
Guardian
Threads together the diverse life stories of 12 black British women in ways that deliberately resist categorisation
Metro
Such a satisfying read, funny and true, the characters are so real you feel you know them already
Miranda Sawyer via Twitter
A 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 Britain
Economist
My 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.
Roxanne Gay
‘Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo is the best book in recent years to have embodied the idea that there are as many ways to be joyful as there are to be Black. Polyphonic and nuanced, it celebrates the lives of Black British women rather than commiserating with them, which is a crucial – and rare – distinction.’
Sara Collins

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