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 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

'Brilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking' Jojo Moyes

'A must-read novel about sex, selfhood, and the best friendships that get us through it all' Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City

Queenie is a twenty-five-year-old Black woman living in south London, straddling Jamaican and British culture whilst slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers, and beg to write about Black Lives Matter. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie finds herself seeking comfort in all the wrong places.

As Queenie veers from one regrettable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be? - the questions that every woman today must face in a world that keeps trying to provide the answers for them.

A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, Queenie will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way. A disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive tale that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and acceptance and found something very different in its place.©2019 Candice Carty-Williams (P)2019 Orion Publishing Group Ltd Biographical Fiction Caribbean Creators Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Urban Biography Funny Heartfelt Thought-Provoking Witty Inspiring
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I cannot recommend this book enough! Fantastic storyline and characters: I laughed, I cried, I was fully immersed in Queenie’s life and didn’t want the book to end. The narration was perfect. Shvorne did a fantastic job with the voices, really bringing the characters to life. It’s going to be hard to follow this one!

A fantastic book and listen

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Loved this book. A beautifully written story of real life. I was hooked and enjoyed listening to it.

Queenie

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I loved the narration fit the characters so well really made me feel as though I met them, and the story was so current and relateable, very deep and moving.

heartfelt

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Well you can’t help but fall in love with Queenie. Her story is told honestly and with feeling. Sometimes it makes you laugh out loud sometimes it is so sad.

I’ve read many books and it’s not often I take the time to write a review - I was so disappointed when this book ended because I just wanted it to go on forever.

It is also a wonderful insight into culture and the way different people live their lives without necessarily having a choice
Highly recommended I hope there’s a sequel at some point

I absolutely adored this book

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This book gives a great insight into the complexity of black people living in the U.K. Not all our stories are the same and each person has their own skeletons that shape their psyche

We are not all the same but we are

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