Girl, Woman, Other

Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet.Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados.Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s squatters' palace.Morgan, who used to be Megan, is blowing up on social media, the newest activist-influencer on the block.Twelve very different people, mostly black and female, more than a hundred years of change, and one sweeping, vibrant, glorious portrait of contemporary Britain. Bernardine Evaristo presents a gloriously new kind of history for this old country: ever-dynamic, ever-expanding and utterly irresistible.