Queenie Candice Cartywilliams by Candice Carty-williams 9781501196027, 1501196022, B07GNSV7Q3 instant download after payment.

Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and found something very different in its place.  "[B]rilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking" (Jojo Moyes). 

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 with 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.

"Lurking just beneath the glittering, fast-paced surface of the story are all sorts of disturbing things... I have never read a novel that shows the experience of everyday, low-level racism so vividly, or so convincingly... a funny, clever, heartbreaking lightning bolt of a first novel, by a writer bristling with talent."  -  Kate Saunders, The Times

With “fresh and honest” (Jojo Moyes) prose, Queenie is a remarkably relatable exploration of what it means to be a modern woman searching for meaning in today’s world.