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Girl, Woman, Other
- Narrated by: Anna-Maria Nabirye
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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- Categories: Literature & Fiction, African American
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Publisher's Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Winner of The Booker Prize 2019
Shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction 2020
The Sunday Times best seller
This is Britain as you've never heard it.
This is Britain as it has never been told.
From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the 20th century to the teens of the 21st, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of 12 characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope....
Critic Reviews
"The actress Anna-Maria Nabirye projects the characters superbly: she has a full, low timbre and a powerful directness." (The Times)
"Masterful...A choral love song to black womanhood in modern Great Britain." (Elle)
"Ambitious, flowing and all-encompassing, an offbeat narrative that'll leave your mind in an invigorated whirl...[It] unites poetry, social history, women's voices and beyond." (Stylist)
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- Solanki
- 05-12-19
overrated but easy listen
The story is lovely, easy to listen stories about multiple women and their life. lot of good insights into LGBTQ life . but i do feel it is a bit overrated for booker prize.
4 people found this helpful
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-09-20
Interesting book but narrator ruins the experience
The book is quite interesting although perhaps not entirely worth the insane hype. It is definitely worth a read and a minority community that rightly deserves the attention. But the narrator ruins the experience of the book, she tends to be too fast or too incoherent or tries too hard to put on an accent that sometimes felt like she was mocking the culture. There were parts that were downright un-understandable. You should consider the physical copy over the audio.
2 people found this helpful
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- Anuradha Sethuraman
- 18-08-19
a story where every character is the protagonist
its a story where every character gets to be the protagonist. the narrator's voice reminds me of Adiche
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- Apoorva
- 03-08-20
Many tales, one juncture
Nobody is born strong, they find their strength through their life course, take decisions, or are forced into making one, with coflicting dilemmas in their head. They learn, fail, raise, fight, succumb, love, cheat, speak, express, achieve, choose, it's not restricted to gender, but being human. We need a voice, and Bernardino Evaristo does a spectacular job of weaving 12 diffrent voices, from 12 diffrent backgrounds into one common narrative. Loved it, a masterpiece and i couldn't have thought of any other book other than this to win the prestigious Booker Prize last year! Read it, to embrace your vulnerability and find your person.
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- Matilde F.
- 22-12-20
simply amazing!
This book is so clever, witty, insightful and so well written. It reads your mind and makes you ponder. The narrator is fantastic. I highly recommend the audio version. Thank you Bernadine Evaristo for this wonderful piece of work!
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- Pragya Singhal
- 09-10-20
Stories of women from various timelines
This book has many women with each having an interesting story. But so do many people around us if we look carefully. The author made the effort to identify, mould and then weave each story to bring them all together in this book. The first story may test your patience initially, but once the ball gets rolling, it keeps you immersed. I expected to read strong views on feminism, woman rights, liberation etc. But the book unabashedly calls out the stereotypes when they over-exploit these concepts. An ideas may be accepted or objected depending on the mindset and the era. Human ego, desires, sins and mercies are narrated without much judgement. One needs to assess their position of power (or privilege) before expecting every one to live a non conformist life. These woman have lived through it all and that makes this book deserving of all the applaud and appreciation.
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- @moonwards
- 06-10-20
Delightful
Most beautiful tale(s) told in the most powerful voice. What a delight this was!
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- Prashant Rao Adurty Venkata
- 04-03-20
Monotonous narration brings it down
The story is good and could be quite engaging if read. But the narration makes it hard to get engaged with the characters or the flow. thumbs down.
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- Polly
- 12-06-20
'Girl, Woman, Other' Underwhelming
Girl, Woman, Other, is best read first, to see the arrangement of the text on the page, and to understand and appreciate the experimental prose/poetic style - as composed by Bernardine Evaristo. Seeing and reading the book may add the layer of literary depth unseen in the Audio edition.
The Audio is devoid of poetic rhythms, and the Reading does not reflect/convey experimental written form. The Audio version exposes formulaic writing patterns and a lack of character development.
Read the book first?
4 people found this helpful
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- Ana-Maria Gavrila
- 17-10-19
A thing of beauty...
Not a review, only to say that I definitely didn’t expect it to be as remarkable.
3 people found this helpful
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- Wendy
- 19-11-19
Great novel - flaws in narration.
Great characters and story, but let down a bit by the narrator who, although she has a good quality voice, often pauses where she shouldn't, or doesn't pause where she should, with incorrect emphasis. Many words are mispronounced, which indicates that the narrator is not familiar with the word itself. I agree with another reviewer who says the narrator needed someone in the recording sessions to direct her performance, spot the mistakes and fix them. Surely every audiobook performance is supervised by someone other than a sound engineer? I found myself listening out for the next mistake, and the next one, But I still enjoyed the story.
2 people found this helpful
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- AOC
- 03-07-20
Complicated Read
Too many characters, too many to remember! Have a pen and paper ready to take notes...
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- Sharon
- 19-03-20
Nothing happens!
So yeah. I thought this would be an interesting read, and it won The Booker. How could I go wrong, right? With one click of a button it seems. The narrator did well but the author should learn what a story is.
The premise is a good one and I liked some of the characters but absolutely nothing happens in this book. It is just about ordinary women and their ordinary struggles. I like a plot, I like a beginning middle and a satisfying end. This had nothing.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-11-21
An amazing book, a tender look into gender identity, into womanhood.
The narrator has an amazing and powerful voice that keeps you on edge until the end! Thanks again!
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- Sarah Vaulbert
- 06-09-21
Reader was great, very english
Loved this book , highly recommend it. Great read , wonderful characters. The trader was great. I love the English accent
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- S
- 10-03-21
A beautiful read
Wonderfully intertwined stories,with each one even mor captivating than the last. Couldn’t recommend this book more.
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- 24-12-20
I couldn't put it down
Really enjoyed this book. I couldn't put it down. very different! Definitely enlightened on black,lesbian,Bi world we live in.
highly recommend this book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-11-20
I could follow the Narrator. Unfortunately.
I couldn't follow the narrator, so unfortunately I have missed the content of the book.
I did read this in another review, but unfortunately the Narrator needs more practice to articulate what she is reading.
She has an appropriate voice and accents for the content, but lacks sufficient skill, which results in a story you just can't follow.
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- Booklover
- 21-11-19
Good story but distracting narration
The narrator made so many mistakes in pronunciation that it detracted from my enjoyment of the book.
Particularly irritating was the fact that there were two characters - Waris and Bibi - whose names she pronounced in two different ways. War-is and Wear-is. Bibby and Beebee.
71 people found this helpful
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- Vinca
- 03-12-19
A Great Book, but -
This story is lovely, an engaging and interesting account of several women's lives and how they interact with one another. It would have been such an enjoyable listen but for one thing. The narrator's constant mispronunciation of words. I'm not talking about things that are difficult to say, but words in common usage (it's deMONstrably not demonSTRAYably for example). It got to the point where I was counting how many words were wrongly spoken in a given time. Five or six within half an hour is far too many in my opinion, and it was really grating. I had to stop listening. Which was a great shame.
67 people found this helpful
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- Jo
- 26-12-19
Distracting narration
I found the narration too distracting to get involved in the stories being told. There were so many mispronunciations - did noone listen to this before it was released?
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- S
- 21-10-19
Too many mistakes
It was jarring each time the narrator made a mistake. She even mispronounced the word “pronunciation”. The actor and drag queen, Divine, was referred to as Diveen. Hopefully, there will be a re-recording of the book as the story was very engaging.
101 people found this helpful
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- EEL
- 03-08-19
Utterly terrible audio version of a good book
As a book, this is a compelling, diverting, well-crafted and beautiful story of 12 women and their twentieth and twenty-first century lives. The book itself is highly recommended. The audio, however, is not.
The actor here mispronounces so many words -- why did the audio editor or production person not tell her? She has a far smaller vocabulary than the author (who writes beautifully) and she doesn't understand the sense of many of the sentences she recites, putting the wrong expression into many clauses, pausing in odd places, generally ignoring the rhythm and meaning of the text. The mispronunciation involves removing syllables from words ('superority' for superiority, 'convality' for conviviality, and many more), inserting extra syllables ('VilINinus' for Vilnius, lustrious for 'lustrous'), and approximating unfamiliar words ('dissimating' for decimating, 'vivosity' for viscosity). She can't pronounce any of the French phrases used by the pompous professor father, making him seem dim rather than pompous, and she doesn't really differentiate voices for the characters. Her own voice is pleasant and well-produced, but she really needed input from the production team and/or author (plus more actor training). But the production team are also terrible in other ways: there is a lot of bad editing, which often leaves in the traces of stumbles in the reading or cuts them out inexpertly so the text doesn't flow. Penguin Audio presumably outsourced this recording to a small production company and didn't properly check the results--they should be derided for this since it is a serious disservice to the author of the book.
I would strongly encourage Evaristo to protest at the shoddiness of this production and demand a new recording. Her story deserves better.
249 people found this helpful
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- DD
- 16-12-19
Great story, read poorly
Such an excellent story let down by really poor reading. The reader pronounced words incorrectly and it was difficult to distinguish between the characters. She read with one note throughout. Tbh, after a short time I decided that this was one that I was going to read myself because the reader was ruining it for me. How much better it would be if they could get a better actress to read this.
24 people found this helpful
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- User
- 31-10-19
Brilliant
Absolutely beautiful, moving, well written, witty, and clever. I laughed, I cried, and I was educated. What more can you ask for from a book? Fantastic.
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- R O N UMUNNA
- 12-08-20
HORRIBLE NARRATION, APPALLING ACTUALLY...
Audible, Penguin, whomever, I suggest you re-record this ASAP. The narrator’s mispronunciations are too frequent and distracting.
Pallor as parlour
Braggadocio as braddocio
Conviviality as conviliaty
Disease-riddled as disease-raddled
Laissez faire as lahsay fair
Also, her Nigerian accent is laughable at best and caricature at worst - as a Nigerian, I struggled to understand the words she was trying to pronounce such as “aso-oke”, “Ibadan” etc. The emphasis she placed on the words made me wonder whether she was parodying especially the parts that were in pidgin English. I almost gave up on listening there. It was ATROCIOUS.
All the intellectualism / racialism / feminism / genderism force-feeding coupled with the incoherent narration meant that I just couldn’t get into the stories. This narrator though, has done Bernardine Evaristo a great disservice.
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- Hackney Girl
- 21-10-19
A brilliant story - slightly spoiled by the reader
I actually listened to this book in one go. Very engaging and a real story of a range of today's womxn.
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- Rachel OConnell
- 31-10-19
best book I have read in ages!
Fantastic narrator and fascinating characters. Excellent book. I couldn't stop listening to it. Beautifully written too. I cannot fault it.
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- deb
- 15-11-19
Read it, the narration is an issue
I understand why this book won the Booker prize (albeit shared with the Testament, which I don’t think should have won the Booker!). It is a compilation of short stories, eclectic voices of women of colour from different times, places, gender choices, sexual desires, backgrounds & every other diversity you can think of.
I think the narrator was the problem for me. Her voice was a little monotone & preachy at times. Or was the book didactic? Also the pace was too quick & there weren’t pauses between the chapters.
But I certainly recommend this book & think I need to read it rather than listen to it.
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- Robyn
- 31-12-19
Human courage and beauty, entrancing
A fine piece of writing, a woven basket of ways of being, read well. Both moving and inspiring.
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- Jane Feast
- 14-04-21
Narrators need to know how to pronounce words
Not about accent or regional use of English. Narrator needs education. Audible needs quality control.
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- Dimitym
- 19-01-20
Very dull narration
This may not have been a candidate for audio. Lots of monotonous basal tones.
Interesting characters and clearly there’s a need for these stories but there was not enough plot to keep me interested.
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- Parvati Angana
- 29-10-19
Good not Great
I started Girl Woman Other with huge expectations, as this was clearly a record-making booking. It had forced the hands of the Booker judges to split the prize for the first time ever. Clearly the Booker judges regarded this book as every bit as good as Atwood’s and it had beaten other great works on the short list, including Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte
So I guess I should make myself clear - Girl Woman Other is a good novel - one I would have said I ‘quite liked’, had it not been for the huge expectations with which I had started reading it.
The story, or stories as there are several strands,never really took off for me. I couldn’t see any of the kind of character development that makes you fully identify with a character (perhaps I did a bit with Anna). In the end the book gave me little more than a typology of how to be a modern person and live the sexuality and gender that feels right.
I love the politics of the book, and if I was still teaching a university course on feminism, I would use the book as a text. But is this a book that will stay with me for the rest of my life? Has it given me a new way of looking at the world? Nope.
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- samantha bryant
- 10-02-21
Just could not handle the narrator
I could not get further than 6 or 7 paragraphs so I can't really comment on the book itself. The narrator's voice is monotonous...she accentuates the words too strongly...especially the letter 's" and it's as though she has too much to say within every sentence...I found it exhausting.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-07-20
brilliant!
really enjoying reading this. entertaining, thought provoking, moving and real. i couldn't put it down.
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- Kitty
- 29-06-20
Girl, Woman, Other.
Listened to this really delightful book in nearly one sitting. Highly recommend! A really genuine read. Enjoy!
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- Sarah
- 26-06-20
Stunning
The story is consistently engaging, the characters are so full of life, and the narration is top class.
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- Alexis SHOREHILL
- 05-06-20
wow
I loved this book. I want to go back and read it in text. thanks.
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