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Queenie

By:

Carty-Williams, Candice

9781409180074

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

ZZ 5.

Summary: Queenie is a twenty-five-year-old Black woman living in south London, straddling Jamaican and British culture whilst slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers, and beg to write about Black Lives Matter. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie finds herself seeking comfort in all the wrong places. As Queenie veers from one regrettable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be? - the questions that every woman today must face in a world that keeps trying to provide the answers for them. A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, Queenie will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way. A disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive tale that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and acceptance and found something very different in its place.

List(s) this item appears in: SLaM Library Black History Month and anti-racism books | SLaM leisure reading | SLaM Library Celebrating Black Women Books (Black History Month 2023)

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Collection	Class number	Status	Barcode
Book	Hirson Library (St Helier) Shelves		P (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	040080
Book	Sally Howell Library (Epsom) Shelves		P (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	012515
Book	South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves	People & planet	ZZ 5 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	023478

First published: Trapeze, 2019. Paperback edition 2020.

Queenie is a twenty-five-year-old Black woman living in south London, straddling Jamaican and British culture whilst slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers, and beg to write about Black Lives Matter. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie finds herself seeking comfort in all the wrong places.

As Queenie veers from one regrettable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be? - the questions that every woman today must face in a world that keeps trying to provide the answers for them.

A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, Queenie will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way. A disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive tale that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and acceptance and found something very different in its place.

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