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I'm not entirely sure why this novel won this year's Booker Prize but I'm pleased I read it as it was enlightening as well as enjoyable.
The stories about mostly women of the African diaspora in modern day Britain are well written with myriad references to current social trends and how the women participate in or respond to them. Feminism, lesbianism, gender roles are front and centre of the novel but the stories about fidelity, family relationships and growing old. were for me the most engaging ...more
The stories about mostly women of the African diaspora in modern day Britain are well written with myriad references to current social trends and how the women participate in or respond to them. Feminism, lesbianism, gender roles are front and centre of the novel but the stories about fidelity, family relationships and growing old. were for me the most engaging ...more
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