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Girl, Woman, Other

By: Bernardine Evaristo
Narrated by: Anna-Maria Nabirye
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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


© Bernardine Evaristo 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2019

 African American Coming of Age Family Life Friendship Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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Critic reviews

"The actress Anna-Maria Nabirye projects the characters superbly: she has a full, low timbre and a powerful directness." (The Times)

"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)

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Not a review, only to say that I definitely didn’t expect it to be as remarkable.

A thing of beauty...

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Truly brilliant I really enjoyed it!
So much more than I thought....
The performance was also excellent.

Brilliant

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Loved this book , highly recommend it. Great read , wonderful characters. The trader was great. I love the English accent

Reader was great, very english

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Really enjoyed this book. I couldn't put it down. very different! Definitely enlightened on black,lesbian,Bi world we live in.
highly recommend this book.

I couldn't put it down

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The narrator has an amazing and powerful voice that keeps you on edge until the end! Thanks again!

An amazing book, a tender look into gender identity, into womanhood.

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Wonderfully intertwined stories,with each one even mor captivating than the last. Couldn’t recommend this book more.

A beautiful read

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the narrator was great, clear and easy to listen to.

characters were all unique and well written. a very enjoyable read, but it felt at times a bit like a catalogue of diversity... like the author had a list and must have one each of all the current intersectional feminist issues represented, like a collection of dolls. I'm really grateful for the perspectives, but it felt a bit unnatural because it seemed to be trying to be an anthology of everything black and feminist and lgbti+ in one book. Really good story teller. Really good coverage of the issues at s surface level, but I probably would prefer a deeper dive into their stories. I think this could have been a series, and could have been a bit more realistic at the end about how much people really change when challenged.

great perspective, bit catalogue of diversity

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Great characters and story, but let down a bit by the narrator who, although she has a good quality voice, often pauses where she shouldn't, or doesn't pause where she should, with incorrect emphasis. Many words are mispronounced, which indicates that the narrator is not familiar with the word itself. I agree with another reviewer who says the narrator needed someone in the recording sessions to direct her performance, spot the mistakes and fix them. Surely every audiobook performance is supervised by someone other than a sound engineer? I found myself listening out for the next mistake, and the next one, But I still enjoyed the story.

Great novel - flaws in narration.

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So yeah. I thought this would be an interesting read, and it won The Booker. How could I go wrong, right? With one click of a button it seems. The narrator did well but the author should learn what a story is.

The premise is a good one and I liked some of the characters but absolutely nothing happens in this book. It is just about ordinary women and their ordinary struggles. I like a plot, I like a beginning middle and a satisfying end. This had nothing.

Nothing happens!

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I couldn't follow the narrator, so unfortunately I have missed the content of the book.
I did read this in another review, but unfortunately the Narrator needs more practice to articulate what she is reading.
She has an appropriate voice and accents for the content, but lacks sufficient skill, which results in a story you just can't follow.

I could follow the Narrator. Unfortunately.

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