Girl, Woman, Other
British novelist, born 1959. Won the Booker Prize in 2019 and the British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year in 2020.
Girl, Woman, Other is a 2019 novel by Bernardine Evaristo. It won the Booker Prize in 2019 and the British Book Awards' Fiction Book of the Year in 2020.
In LGBTQ+
On 4 of the 14 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Bernardine Evaristo
- First published
- 2019
- Length
- 464 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Booker Prize winner, 2019
- Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, 2020
- British Book Awards Fiction winner, 2020
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Migration and identity, Feminist, LGBTQ+
Is Girl, Woman, Other worth reading?
4 of the 14 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Booker Prize and the British Book Awards' Fiction Book of the Year.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 2019) | Winner | See the list |
| British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (The Bookseller, 2020) | Winner | See the list |
| The Big Jubilee Read (BBC Arts and The Reading Agency, 2022) | Listed | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2020) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of Girl, Woman, Other
The edition we link to is the Penguin paperback (2020), 464 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin (paperback, 2020)
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN
- 9780241984994
How critics, prizes and readers rate Girl, Woman, Other
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 67% of the points available on prize lists, against 17% on readers' and booksellers' lists and 0% on critics' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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