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Girl, Woman, Other
- Author
- Bernardine Evaristo
- Narrator
- Anna-Maria Nabirye
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 2 May 2019
- Run Time
- 11 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: coming of age, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Fiction: dual or multiple timelines, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: sense of place, Narrative theme: identity / belonging
- Rating
- 4.8 (4 reviews)
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What to expect
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
Critics Review
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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
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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
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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
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Weaves through time and space with crackling originality
Vogue
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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
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An exceptional book that unites poetry, social history, women's voices and beyond. Order it right now
Stylist
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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
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Brims with vitality
FT
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With this rich composition, Evaristo deserves a toast
Literary Review
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Masterful... A choral love song to black womanhood in modern Great Britain
Elle
User Reviews
Book 4.8
Narration 4.5
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Details
- Author
- Bernardine Evaristo
- Narrator
- Anna-Maria Nabirye
- Duration
- 11 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 May 2019
- ISBN
- 9780241987728
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: coming of age, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Fiction: dual or multiple timelines, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: sense of place, Narrative theme: identity / belonging
- Rating
- 4.8(4 reviews)
- Narration
- 4.5(4 reviews)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. ***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThis 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
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