This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first. 

'Masterful . . . A choral love song to black womanhood in modern Great Britain' Elle

'Ambitious, flowing and all-encompassing, an offbeat narrative that'll leave your mind in an invigorated whirl... [It] unites poetry, social history, women's voices and beyond.' Stylist

'Bernardine Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life' Ali Smith, author of How to be both.

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019, SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020, SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020