Girl, woman, other / Bernardine Evaristo.
Publication details: London, UK : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.Description: 452 pages ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780241364901
- 0241364906
- Women -- Fiction
- Africans -- England -- Fiction
- Self-realization in women -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Brides -- Fiction
- Feminism -- England -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Feminism -- England -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Women -- Identity -- Fiction
- Women -- England -- Fiction
- Older women -- England -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Women, Black -- England -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- England -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- 823.92 23
- Joint Winner 2019 Booker Prize.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | EVA | Available | 070024 |
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.
Joint Winner 2019 Booker Prize.