Queenie

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION

''A deliciously funny, characterful, topical and thrilling novel for our times'' Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize

''Brilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking'' Jojo Moyes

''A must-read novel about sex, selfhood, and the best friendships that get us through it all'' Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City

Queenie is a twenty-five-year-old Black woman living in south London, straddling Jamaican and British culture whilst slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper where she''s constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers, and beg to write about Black Lives Matter. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie finds herself seeking co