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Queenie

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Queenie follows Queenie Jenkins, a twenty-five-year-old Jamaican British woman navigating life and love in London. Working at a national newspaper, she feels caught between cultures and struggles with identity amid her white middle-class peers. After a difficult breakup with her white boyfriend, Queenie makes a series of questionable choices, seeking comfort in hazardous relationships. Through her journey, she confronts the complex questions of who she is and who she wants to be in a world full of conflicting expectations.
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This novel is ideal for readers interested in contemporary stories about identity, relationships, and self-discovery, especially those seeking authentic narratives about modern womanhood and multicultural experiences in the UK.

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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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NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES

"A book that sneaks up on you... I am hooked." – 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?"β€”all 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" – 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.

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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

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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