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Candice Carty-Williams

    Candice Carty-Williams is an author whose work draws from a rich tapestry of cultural influences and personal experiences. Through her distinctive voice, she explores complex relationships and identity, with writing that is imbued with sharp wit and keen insight. Carty-Williams is dedicated to celebrating and championing diverse voices within literature, a commitment reflected in her approach to storytelling and thematic concerns. Her narratives challenge readers to consider societal questions and the human condition.

    People Person
    Queenie
    • Queenie

      • 392 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      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 . . . including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth. As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, 'What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?' -- all of the questions today's woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her.

      Queenie
      3.9
    • People Person

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      People Person is a triumph. Caleb Azumah Nelson | Wonderful. Marian Keyes | I loved it. Sara Collins THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE BRITISH BOOK AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF QUEENIE If you could choose your family, you wouldn't choose the Penningtons Dimple, Nikisha, Danny, Lizzie and Prynce are half-siblings who don't have much in common except abandonment issues. But when a catastrophic event forces them to reconnect with each other and with Cyril Pennington, the absent father they never really knew, things start to get complicated fast . . . People Person is a propulsive story of heart, humour and homecoming, about the true nature of family and the complexities of belonging.

      People Person
      3.8