Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 - Hardcover

Evaristo, Bernardine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241364906 ISBN 13: 9780241364901

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2019

Synopsis

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

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

'Exceptional. 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. You have to order it right now' 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

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019

About this title

Review:

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)

About the Author:

Bernardine Evaristo is the Anglo-Nigerian award-winning author of seven books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora: past, present, real, imagined. 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.

As a literary activist for inclusion, Bernardine Evaristo has founded several successful initiatives including Theatre of Black Women (1982-86), Spread the Word writer development agency (1995-present); The Complete Works mentoring scheme for poets of colour (2007-17) and the Brunel International African Poetry Prize (2012 - ongoing).

www.bevaristo.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0241364906
• ISBN 13: 9780241364901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464