Shelfology Book Pairing

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

by Bernardine Evaristo

THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER & BOOKER PRIZE WINNER RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD *One of Goodreads Most Popular Books of the Past Decade* This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope . . . 'The most absorbing book I read all year' Roxane Gay ' is one of the very best that we have' Nikesh Shukla 'Beautifully interwoven stories of identity, race, womanhood, and the realities of modern Britain. The characters are so vivid, the writing is beautiful and it brims with humanity' Nicola Sturgeon 'A choral love song to black womanhood in modern Great Britain' Elle 'Bernardine Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life' Ali Smith 'Exceptional. You have to order it right now' Stylist

by Jennifer Egan

Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family.Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women hold jobs that were once the preserve of men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father's life and the reasons he might have vanished.