Girl, Woman, Other

From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first,Girl Woman Otherfollows 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... (From Penguin Random House)

Girl, Woman, Other co-won the 2019 Booker Prize.

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Writers and Company56:09Bernardine Evaristo on black British identity and her Booker-winning novel, Girl, Woman, Other

The co-winner of the 2019 Man Booker Prize talks to Eleanor Wachtel about her ambitious novel, and about growing up in a large, mixed-race family in London in the 1960s and '70s.

More about the Booker Prize

Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo jointly win Booker Prize

5 years ago

Duration 1:56

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and British author Bernardine Evaristo split the prestigious Booker Prize after the judging panel broke the rules when they couldnt pick.