# Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (Paperback)

**THE _SUNDAY TIMES_ BESTSELLER**  
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BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS  
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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD**  
  
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION**  
  
**'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 comfort in all the wrong places.  
  
As Queenie veers from one regrettable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, _What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be_? - the questions that every woman today must face in a world that keeps trying to provide the answers for them.  
  
**A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, _Queenie_ will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way. A disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive tale that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and acceptance and found something very different in its place.**

## Details

- **Price:** 9.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** Trapeze
- **Tags:** All Books, Romance

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