Queenie

by Candice Carty-Williams

*QUEENIE CHANGED THE GROUP NAME TO “THE CORGIS”*

The first time the Corgis appeared in a group chat was never in the first version of Queenie, which seems bizarre even to me as it feels like such a huge part of the novel. My American editor asked me to think about adding some more scenes that included Queenie, Kyazike, Darcy and Cassandra together, and I remember thinking how impossible it is to get a group of people together (and this was even before the pandemic). And thus, the group chat was born. I actually spent a lot of time laughing whenever I’d write those message exchanges.