Author: Bernardine Evaristo
Narrator: Bernardine Evaristo
Unabridged: TBD
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: 11/17/2026
Categories: Fiction, African American & Black Fiction, Women, Family Life
Bernardine Evaristo was born in London to a Nigerian father and an English mother. Her first novel, Lara, won the EMMA (Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards) Best Book Award in 1999. A former Poet in Residence at the Museum of London, she won an Arts Council of Britain Writers' Award in 2000.
Update: This predictably has won the Booker 2019 (jointly). And if it is the best book of the shortlist, I am very happy about my decision not to spend time reading any others shortlisted this year. Original review: Unfortunately I ended up disappointed by this book, though I really wanted to like it......more
Magnificent novel of such grand scope and ambition. This is a novel about 12 women but it is also a sweeping history of the black British experience. The attention to detail, the structure, the syntax, it’s all brilliant and moving and truly represents what fiction at its finest.......more
Now shortlisted for the prestigious international 2021 Dublin Literary Award Winner (jointly) of the 2019 Booker Prize - perhaps appropriately given its closing words this is about being together A book I have read and loved three times so I was delighted to be present for its win and to get these p......more