- Fiction, women, Fiction, psychological, London (england), fiction, Dating (social customs), fiction
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.
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Contemporary, classical in form, character-led and intimate.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Candice Carty-Williams
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 392
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, Gallery/Scout Press, Prometheus
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781409180050
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