Girl, woman, other, Bernardine Evaristo
Type
Label
Girl, woman, other, Bernardine Evaristo
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Girl, woman, other
Responsibility statement
Bernardine Evaristo
Summary
Welcome to Newcastle, 1905. Ten-year-old Grace is an orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Cornwall, 1953. Winsome is a young bride, recently arrived from Barbados, realising the man she married might be a fool. London, 1980. Amma is the fierce queen of her squatters' palace, ready to Smash The Patriarchy with a new kind of feminist theatre. Oxford, 2008. Carole is rejecting her cultural background (Nigeria by way of Peckham) to blend in at her posh university. Northumberland, 2017. Morgan, who used to be Megan, is visiting Hattie who's in her nineties, who used to be young and strong, who fights to remain independent, and who still misses Slim every day. Welcome to Britain and twelve very different people - mostly women, mostly black - who call it home. Teeming with life and crackling with energy, Girl, Woman, Other follows them across the miles and down the years. With vivid originality, irrepressible wit and sly wisdom, Bernardine Evaristo presents a gloriously new kind of history for this old country: ever-dynamic, ever-expanding and utterly irresistible
Target audience
adult
Classification
Creator
Subject
- Women + Identity -- Fiction
- Feminism -- England -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Families -- Fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Africans -- England -- Fiction
- Women, Black -- England -- Fiction
- Brides -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Self-realization in women -- Fiction
- Older women -- England -- Fiction
Content
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- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject14
- Women + Identity -- Fiction
- Feminism -- England -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Families -- Fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Africans -- England -- Fiction
- Women, Black -- England -- Fiction
- Brides -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Self-realization in women -- Fiction
- Older women -- England -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1