Queenie
by Candice Carty-Williams
Taste attributes: dramacomedyromanceunsavouryheavyrealisticlinearenclosedemotive & stirringcoming of agetroubled leadsempowerment/personal growth
Boxlist takeGrounded and stirring: a small-scale novel. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
About This Book
Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places . . .
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- Author
- Candice Carty-Williams
- Published
- 2019
- Pages
- 392
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- Open Library
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