Girl, woman, other
Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959-2019
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Welcome to Newcastle, 1905. Ten-year-old Grace is an orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Cornwall, 1953. Winsome is a young bride, recently arrived from Barbados, realising the man she married might be a fool. London, 1980. Amma is the fierce queen of her squatters' palace, ready to Smash The Patriarchy with a new kind of feminist theatre. Oxford, 2008. Carole is rejecting her cultural background (Nigeria by way of Peckham) to blend in at her posh university. Northumberland, 2017. Morgan, who used to be Megan, is visiting Hattie who's in her nineties, who used to be young and strong, who fights to remain independent, and who still misses Slim every day. Welcome to Britain and twelve very different people - mostly women, mostly black - who call it home.
Main title:
Girl, woman, other / by Bernardine Evaristo.
Author:
Imprint:
London, UK : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.
Collation:
452 pages ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019
ISBN:
9780241364901 (hardback)
Language:
English
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BRN:
375028
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