Girl, woman, other
Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959-2019
Book
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. Teeming with life and crackling with energy, Girl, Woman, Other follows them across the miles and down the years. With vivid originality, irrepressible wit and sly wisdom, Bernardine Evaristo presents a gloriously new kind of history for this old country: ever-dynamic, ever-expanding and utterly irresistible.
Main title:
Girl, woman, other / Bernardine Evaristo.
Author:
Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959-, author
Work:
Imprint:
[London], UK : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.©2019.
Collation:
452 pages ; 25 cm.
Series title:
Man Booker Prize for Fiction ; 2019
ISBN:
9780241364901 (hardback)0241364906 (hardback)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
Africans -- England -- FictionBrides -- FictionComing of age -- FictionFamilies -- FictionFeminism -- England -- History -- 20th century -- FictionFeminism -- England -- 20th century -- FictionInterpersonal relations -- FictionOlder women -- England -- FictionOrphans -- FictionSelf-realization in women -- FictionWomen -- England -- FictionWomen -- Identity -- FictionWomen, Black -- England -- FictionFriendship -- FictionEngland -- FictionGreat Britain -- History -- FictionGreat Britain -- Social life and customs -- FictionComing-of-age fictionDomestic fiction
BRN:
91113