Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo is the first black woman to have won the Booker Prize. The book is written in a mix of poetry and prose that Evaristo calls “fusion fiction” and features 12 characters, most of whom are black British women. For Evaristo, this book is almost an activist novel, her mission being to write about the African diaspora, to address its invisibility and show its heterogeneity. Class, age, gender - Evaristo’s protagonists are different in many ways but inhabit intertwined worlds. And despite these differences, her characters are relatable thanks to her witty and accurate observations on the human experience.

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 . . .

THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER & BOOKER PRIZE WINNER

BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR & FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020

"The most absorbing book I read all year." Roxane Gay

"Masterful... A choral love song to black womanhood in modern Great Britain"
Elle

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