Candice Carty-Williams Queenie 2020 Trapeze 2020

Synopsis

<p><b>THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br> <b><br> BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS<br></b><br> <b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD</b><br> <br> <b>LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION</b><br> <br> <b>'Brilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking' Jojo Moyes</b><br> <br> <b>'A must-read novel about sex, selfhood, and the best friendships that get us through it all' Candace Bushnell, author of <i>Sex and the City</i></b><br> <br> Queenie is a twenty-five-year-old Black woman living in south London, straddling Jamaican and British culture whilst slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers, and beg to write about Black Lives Matter. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie finds herself seeking comfort in all the wrong places.<br> <br> As Queenie veers from one regrettable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, <i>What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be</i>? - the questions that every woman today must face in a world that keeps trying to provide the answers for them.<br> <br> <b>A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, <i>Queenie</i> will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way. A disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive tale that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and acceptance and found something very different in its place.</b></p>