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Girl, Woman, Other

By: Bernardine Evaristo
Narrated by: Anna-Maria Nabirye
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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

African American Caribbean Creators Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction World Literature Thought-Provoking

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Critic reviews

Give [Evaristo] more prizes! All the prizes! It has the pace of a whistle stop tour and yet it seems no detail of the myriad of lives we encounter is missed. (Graham Norton via Twitter)
If you haven't discovered [Evaristo] yet, I urge you to read all and any of her books. Devoured one a day already and ordered more. Hilarious, compassionate, moving and brutally honest. (Richard E Grant via Twitter)
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
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
An exceptional book that unites poetry, social history, women's voices and beyond. Order it right now
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
Brims with vitality
With this rich composition, Evaristo deserves a toast
Masterful... A choral love song to black womanhood in modern Great Britain
All stars
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I actually listened to this book in one go. Very engaging and a real story of a range of today's womxn.
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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Loved this. A story that really benefited from audio format. Wide ranging with huge appeal I cried at the end partly for the emotional conclusion mostly because it was over.

Best audiobook of 2019

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Love the way the book starts off with disparate characters who flow together towards the end where the whole book is tied in a pretty bow.

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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I absolutely loved this book and want to read it again and again. Amazing! I feel like going on a journey of exploration into my history and ancestry too!

A beautiful tale of girlhood, womanhood and self discovery.

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This is a work of art. The complexities of generations of feminists and feminine related story’s will make you never to look at girls or woman of any age in the same way with out appreciating the onion layers that make them the imposing or not imposing people they are complex and deep and amazing. To get that across in 11+ hours of storytelling takes skill. I will forever ‘check’ my assumptions at the door more often. Well done.

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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