![]() ![]() ![]() Queenie received much positive critical attention, described by reviewers as both a "smart and breezy comic debut" and "astutely political, an essential commentary on everyday racism" According to Diana Evans, Queenie is an "important political tome of black womanhood and black British life, a rare perspective from the margins", and Afua Hirsch wrote in Time magazine: "Carty-Williams has taken a black woman’s story and made it a story of the age". She could never be." Speaking on CBS Local, Carty-Williams further explained: "It's such a personal story, but it is one that is universal as well.It's not autobiographical, but it’s themes that I've borrowed from my life and my friends' lives." Reception ![]() But this book is also naturally political just because of who Queenie is. Although it was marketed as "a black Bridget Jones", Carty-Williams herself said in an interview in Stylist magazine: "That's how I thought of her in the beginning, too. In 2017 Queenie was the subject of an auction between four publishers and was eventually acquired for a six-figure sum by Orion. The novel is about the life and loves of Queenie Jenkins, a vibrant, troubled 25-year-old British-Jamaican woman who is not having a very good year. ![]() Queenie is a new adult novel written by British author Candice Carty-Williams and published by an imprint of Trapeze published by Orion in 2019. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book ![]()
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