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Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
Girl, Woman, Other jointly won the 2019 Booker Prize, which is the least this utterly magnificent novel deserves. Bring it Oscars, Brit Awards and 1st Prize in the Most Amusing Vegetable competition, it deserves them all.
Novels which deal with the sheer scope and range of characters tackled here can suffer from being too long, or the different characters bleeding into one. Not here. The tone is magical, each chapter gives the character just enough space to come sparkling to life and leave the reader needing more. I want to read more; more about Morgan, spend more time in Bummi's head, see where Amma goes next. But that is the beauty of this novel, no character overstays their time and each wonderfully informs the next as each tale winds itself into and around the next before we go full circle.
This is a fabulous book. It is urgent, it is wise and it is the closest any book I have read recently has come to planting a firm cultural marker down, a point people can look back on and say "I read that when it came out".
Novels which deal with the sheer scope and range of characters tackled here can suffer from being too long, or the different characters bleeding into one. Not here. The tone is magical, each chapter gives the character just enough space to come sparkling to life and leave the reader needing more. I want to read more; more about Morgan, spend more time in Bummi's head, see where Amma goes next. But that is the beauty of this novel, no character overstays their time and each wonderfully informs the next as each tale winds itself into and around the next before we go full circle.
This is a fabulous book. It is urgent, it is wise and it is the closest any book I have read recently has come to planting a firm cultural marker down, a point people can look back on and say "I read that when it came out".