WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
This is Britain as you've never seen 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 . .
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019
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[Amma is walking along the promenade of the waterway that bisects her city, a few early morning barges cruise slowly by]***
(Hamish Hamilton, 2 May 2019, 453 pages, ebook, copy from @PenguinUKBooks via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed, #popsugarreadingchallenge 2020, a book that won an award in 2019)
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I knew I wanted to read this book when I heard the author read an extract on The Big Scottish Book Club. I could have listened to her talk for hours and was immediately pulled into the story. I was delighted to be approved for a copy on #NetGalley and the book deserves to be a join winner of the Man Booker Prize. The novel is structured in a version of stream-of-consciousness which took a few pages to get used to. The story flows so well and I loved the little connections and links between the twelve women whose stories the book explores. The book is also a very rich and detailed look into Black History in Britain, something I've not had any real exposure to. I loved the attention to detail. I loved the way the book explores the relationship between the 12 women, with their family and friends as well as the world's they inhabit. The book is celebration of women of different ages and sexuality and different periods in time. I thought it was amazing.
