Queenie
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Queenie
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With "fresh and honest" (Jojo Moyes) prose, this novel is a relatable exploration of what it means to be a modern woman searching for meaning and for love in today's world.
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"A book that sneaks up on you... I am hooked." β Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author
This acclaimed and "welcome debut from a seriously talented author" (New York Post) is a disarmingly honest, unapologetically black, and undeniably witty novel that will speak to those who have gone looking for love and found something very different in its place.
Queenie Jenkins is a twenty-five-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places... including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth.
As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, "What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?"βall of the questions today's woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her.
"A must-read novel about sex, selfhood, and the best friendships that get us through it all" β Candace Bushnell, New York Times bestselling author
Queenie is a remarkably relatable exploration of what it means to be a modern woman searching for meaning in today's world.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781501196027
Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 November 2019
Imprint: Gallery/Scout Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 137.0mm
Height: 213.0mm
Weight: 249g
Pages: 352
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About the Author
Candice Carty-Williams is a writer, now a showrunner, and the author of the Sunday Times (London) bestselling Queenie, which was shortlisted by Goodreads for book of the year in 2019 and won the British Books Awards Book of the Year in 2020, and People Person. In 2016, Candice created and launched the Guardian 4th Estate Short Story Prize, the first inclusive initiative of its kind in book publishing. Candice has written for The Guardian, i-D, Vogue, and pretty much every publication you can think of. She will probably always live in South London. Follow her on Instagram @CandiceC_W.
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