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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.
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Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams
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- Released
- 2019
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- Title
- Queenie
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Candice Carty-Williams
- Publisher
- Trapeze
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 392
- ISBN10
- 1409180069
- ISBN13
- 9781409180067
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Women, Contemporary Fiction, Relationships, Fun, Gifts for women, Feminism, Literary Fiction, Great Britain, English Literature, Mental Health, London, Race, Racism, Crisis, Heartbreak
- First published
- 2019
- Original title
- Queenie
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- 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.