Tracking the lives and loves of a dozen British women through generations and social classes, Girl, Woman, Other weaves a distinctive, illuminating tapestry of modern British life.
Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2020
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020
Joint Winner of the Booker Prize 2019
Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood.
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.
Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241984994
Number of pages: 464
Weight: 326 g
Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 28 mm
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
Bernardine Evaristo writes about everyday situations. Her style is vibrant and full of life. What really stands out in this book are the different characters. The magic ingredient that makes this book really shine. It... More
This was my first experience of reading Evaristo, and on balance it was a positive one. It occupies the grey area between short story collection and novel - each of the first 12 sections could be a story in its own... More
What a novel! Just unputdownable!
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