Girl, Woman, Other
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Buy Now for £12.99
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Narrated by:
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Anna-Maria Nabirye
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***
RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD
THE 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
'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.' 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
'Exceptional. You have to order it right now' Stylist
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019
© Bernardine Evaristo 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2019
Critic reviews
However, the reader made so many errors in pronunciation of words and phrases that it was rather irritating. She was better with the traditional African parts and OK with the Caribbean parts but didn't seem to have more than GCSE level understanding of English, if that.
I wonder why she was asked to be the reader!? But more concerning, I wonder why the publisher didn't get her to re-record all the bits she couldn't pronounce properly?
A brilliant story - slightly spoiled by the reader
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Best audiobook of 2019
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Where it falls down is that nobody was in the studio while the book was being recorded! So many words were mispronounced as though The reader hadn’t practised the book first and nobody had stopped her when things weren’t said right. Really ruined the flow but like I said a great book anyway
Great book shocking pronunciation
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A beautiful tale of girlhood, womanhood and self discovery.
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My only criticism would be that some of the african dialects of the narrator where not good at all, but the story bad up for it 100 fold.
I would happily re-read this as I think I’d find something new each time. I will have to read/listen again to catch the layers that I missed first time round....and I look forward to it. Bravo.
Amazing!
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