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Girl, Woman, Other

Dazzling and masterful

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 . . .

Winner of the Booker Prize 2019

‘Beautifully interwoven stories of identity, race, womanhood, and the realities of modern Britain’

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Profile of Bernardine Evaristo

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Bernardine Evaristo is the first black British woman to win the Booker Prize. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other shared the 2019 award with Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments. Mark Coles has been finding out about Evaristo’s life as an activist, actor and writer. Hear from her, her mum, sister and husband ! BBC Radio 4 Profile

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Author interview with Samira Ahmad

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Samira Ahmed, How I Found My Voice Podcast, speaks to Bernardine about how she found her voice, from growing up in South-East London and setting up the UK’s first black women’s theatre group to the moment she won the Booker for her novel Girl, Woman, Other.

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Review of Girl Woman Other

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Better Off Read Podcast. Sinead Overbye talks to Pip Adam about Bernadine Evaristo’s novel ‘Girl, Woman, Other’.

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Bernardine Evaristo

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Bernardine Evaristo tells us about Girl Woman Other and shares the books that inspired her in her 20s to put pen to paper herself an shaped her thinking as a writer.

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The Waterstones Interview with Bernardine Evaristo

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Fresh from her success with the Booker Prize 2019, Waterstones spoke to Bernardine Evaristo about assembling her narrative, the fluidity of modern Britain and what winning the prize means to her.

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Bernardine Evaristo: on character

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Bernadine talks to The Royal Society of Literature about the art of writing, her creative process and her characters.

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The Guardian Review

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo review, joy as well as struggle by Misha Fraser-Carroll

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Will Gompertz review

Review of Girl, Woman, Other by Will Gompertz Arts Editor for the BBC.

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Bernardine Evaristo picks 20 books for International Women’s Day

The Booker Prize-winner highlights contemporary Black British women authors

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Book Club Questions for Girl, Woman, Other

Sally Flint gives her review and suggests Book Club questions to spark debate.

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Gutsy Women

Courage and resilience

Throughout history and around the globe women have overcome the toughest resistance imaginable to win victories that have made progress possible for all of us. That is the achievement of each of the women in this book. They are all gutsy women, leaders with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.

Be inspired by ordinary women who have gone on the achieve the extraordinary. Hillary and Chelsea Clinton have collated ‘The Book of Gutsy Women’ , a phenomenal collection of essays about women who have made a lasting difference in the world. Listen to their interview about the book with Fearne Cotton on the Happy Place podcast and then delve a bit deeper into the stories of nine of these amazing women.

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Recursion

Mind-bending thriller

Recursion is a New York Times Bestseller by Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter and the Wayward Pines triology. Described as mind-bending, action-packed and deeply emotional, Recursion is science fiction thriller set in New York, exploring love, grief and the nature of memories.

When Barry Sutton fails to stop the suicide of a women suffering with False Memory Syndrome, a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived, his search for the truth is more terrifying than any disease. Neuroscientist Helena Smith, whose mother has Alzheimer’s disease, has dedicated her life to creating a technology that will preserve our most precious memories forever. As their stories collide, Barry and Helena are trapped together in a loop of ever-growing chaos.

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Educated

Astonishing self-invention

Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days in rural Idaho with radical survivalist Mormon parents. She didn’t get a birth certificate until she was nine and had no medical records because her father did not believe in doctors. She and her six older siblings worked in her father’s junkyard. As she grew older, her father’s beliefs became more extreme and one of her brothers grew violent.

At 17, she decided to educate herself as a means of escape. Within 10 years she had earned a PhD in intellectual history and political thought from Cambridge but was estranged from her parents and half of her siblings. Now 31 and still living in Cambridge, Educated is her first novel and is about the transformative power of education and the price she had to pay for it.

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Girl, Woman, Other

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