Girl, Woman, Other Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Bernardine Evaristo (Author), Anna-Maria Nabirye (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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Winner of The Booker Prize 2019

Shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction 2020

The Sunday Times best seller

This is Britain as you've never heard it.

This is Britain as it has never been told.

From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the 20th century to the teens of the 21st, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of 12 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....

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11 hours and 7 minutes
Author

Bernardine Evaristo
Narrator

Anna-Maria Nabirye
Audible release date

2 May 2019
Language

English
Publisher

Penguin Audio
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B07QTY69TD
Version

Unabridged
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Listening Length	11 hours and 7 minutes
Author	Bernardine Evaristo
Narrator	Anna-Maria Nabirye
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	02 May 2019
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07QTY69TD
Best Sellers Rank	3,284 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 8 in Black & African American Women's Fiction (Books) 40 in Coming of Age Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 104 in Women's Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)

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Varuna Sanjaya Dharmaratna

Can't be recommended

Reviewed in Australia on 20 August 2020

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Could anyone please elucidate the criteria for awarding the "Booker Prize" for a novel? Girl, Woman, Other had won the Booker Prize for the year 2019, which leaves me perplexed as to how this book earned it! Or was it a mistake?

Girl, Woman, Other is filled with slang, non-mainstream words, awkward spelling and grammatical mistakes (maybe done purposely. For example, page 257 - "...she taught Shirley who in turn taught Rachel to ensure they was (sic) all clean and well-dressed when they got on a plane..." ). The punctuation and the arrangement of paragraphs in the book are deplorable. Nevertheless, Girl, Woman, Other must be credited with having one of the longest words in the English language, which is "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". Sorry to say but I can't recommend this book to anyone. If there were an option to give a negative rating, I would have gladly chosen it.

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Hewy

Girl, Woman, Other

Reviewed in Australia on 7 January 2020

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What a ride! What a hoot!

Got lost a few times on connections, but never bored.

Fast paced.

First third of the book I was ‘off’ lesbian politics, but this was necessary - part of my education.

What a huge exploration of women’s politics and sexuality and relationships and modern day Britain race relations.

Kids, you love ‘em, they give you the ‘irrits’ - blokes, the same!

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Student

An extraordinary read.

Reviewed in Australia on 21 November 2020

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This is an extraordinary book that is structured around the individual stories of women of colour in the UK. The stories are intriguing particularly for a male reader not normally exposed to the experiences, thoughts feelings and experiences of these extraordinary people. The writing style is different and initially until one gets used it is annoying. I am not entirely sure why the style needed to be so different . I am not convinced that it added to the story. A great read. Highly recommended.

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Mrs A Morgan

Not my thing

Reviewed in Australia on 28 March 2020

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Although there were significant parts of the book I thoroughly enjoyed, overall I'm not sure what I just finished reading.

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R A Rose

great character observation

Reviewed in Australia on 19 April 2021

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The is the first book I have read by Bernadine Evaristo and I shall definitely read her other 5 novels now. Her interlinking character story explores the lives - hopes, ambitions, style, generational tension - of English born people of coloured immigrants parents and of same sex relationships. She writes character so well.

My only suggestion to other readers is you may like to note down who people are as they are introduced! Towards the end of the book I wished I had done this but then got to the end without missing anything and loving this whole exploration of two worlds I have not experienced myself.

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Jennifer

Fascinating read

Reviewed in Australia on 30 December 2019

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I have never read a book like this before. It was beautifully written and I loved learning about a diverse group of black women living in the UK today. In my opinion it deserved winning the Booker Prize in 2019.

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Carmen

TOGETHER.

Reviewed in Australia on 6 January 2020

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This is a powerful book about women's lives, mostly black women. Stories interlinked by friendship and kinship. Heartbreak of motherhood. The importance of belonging and love. Raw and full of empathy! I cried in the last pages as it all came ..... together!

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Jo Maxima

Funny readable novel which will challenge your stereotypes.

Reviewed in Australia on 27 November 2020

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Everything you ever wanted to know but we’re afraid to ask about gay black women in the UK. Beautifully lays bare the stereotypes @nd prejudices while showing you real people who live in the same world inhabited by not black not gay people. It has laugh out loud moments as well. Easy to read once you get used to the style. Looking for something different? Try this one

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MisterHobgoblin

Remarkable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 September 2019

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Review Girl, Woman, Other is an unconventional novel in the sense that it doesn’t have a plot, doesn’t have a particularly linear timeline, and doesn’t have a single focal character. What it is, essentially, is a collection of twelve different, loosely linked character studies that combine to create a sort of picture of black heritage in Britain.

The twelve narratives are grouped into four sets of three, each set has relatively tight connections with the others in that set, but the four sets are connected sometimes in tangential ways. Each narrative is fully and beautifully told, centring on a black woman but with a lively and diverse cast of supporting characters - sometimes generations of that character’s family, sometimes friends, sometimes employers or offspring.

Each of the twelve characters is sufficiently different to maintain interest and avoid any blurring between them. They range, for example, from a lesbian theatre dramatist, to a city banker, to a Northumbrian farmer, to a narcissistic schoolteacher. Some of the characters are more likeable than others, some of them are happier than others. Taken together, though, they challenge a number of pre-conceptions: e.g. that black skin was not seen in Britain before the Windrush; that the black community is somehow homogenous; that black kids have lower expectations than their white counterparts. We see in great detail the complexity of the backgrounds of many Black Britons; the systematic stifling of ambition and opportunity that Black kids experience; and the power of familial expectations and the perils of wanting something different from life.

Girl, Woman, Other does have a couple of codas. The first is an after party following the opening of a play by Amma, the star of the first narrative. This brings together some of the characters and offers an opportunity for some set-piece politicking. If the novel has a weak spot, this is it. The second coda is much more powerful, as one of the characters discovers her true heritage. The reader will already have worked this out, but the salient feature is more the character’s reaction than the actual fact of it.

This remarkable collection of narratives is dauntingly long to start with, but after the first two or three stories it is very hard to put down. It is written in a compelling, immediate style (almost verse like with line spacing and lack of capital letters), and gives a very convincing insight into lives that the reader might never have previously noticed. This is an important work that gives a better understanding of our country, and an appreciation that the story is still being written.

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carolyn james

Rubbish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 December 2019

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Self indulgent, unreadable and unpunctuated crap This is a case of the Emperor's new clothes. Save your money

278 people found this helpful

Kindle Customer

Pretentious Rubbish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 January 2020

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Unreadable. Fails to engage . Basic style of
writing akin to a four year old. So cross that I had to buy this – my book club chose it as our book of the month. Everyone hates it. Emperor’s new clothes, avoid at all costs!

192 people found this helpful

Clare Bawden

Awful - as others have said 'Emporers new clothes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 February 2020

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This was chosen as our book club book. Everyone struggled to finish it. Awful style of writing. Childish, contrived, stereotyped anti white male stories to fit her prejudiced narrative. In her view, being anti establishment & gobby=being empowered!

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Philippa Perry

Depth and Beauty

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2019

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Bernadine (for me) has painted in so many stories of UK citizens which are universal we’ve just lost touch with them or never really knew them. She’s shown humanity on such a broad scale that has left me feeling I’ve experienced something brutally beautiful in reading her book.

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