Black British lives, sexuality, class and history are handled through changing forms across Bernardine Evaristo’s fiction. Girl, Woman, Other moves among twelve connected characters, most of them Black women, using a fluid form that sits between prose and verse as their lives intersect across generations. Mr Loverman centres on Barry, an elderly Antiguan-born Londoner who has spent decades hiding his relationship with his childhood friend Morris from his wife and family. Blonde Roots reverses the history of the Atlantic slave trade in a satirical alternate world, while Lara draws on family history through a multi-generational verse novel. Evaristo’s work changes form from book to book but remains energetic, polyphonic and interested in voices often pushed to the edge of British narratives. Her books fit Black British fiction, queer literary fiction and experimental contemporary novels. Read more Less
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