Girl, Woman, Other

Teeming with life and crackling with energy, Girl, Woman, Other is a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood. As the stories of twelve very different characters unfold, we meet a teenage girl raised in a provincial town who uses her creativity to escape; a woman working in finance who has never told anyone about her past; a mother trying to protect her daughter from the dangers of the Internet; a young musician trying to protect herself from an abusive partner; and a college student learning about sex for the first time, among many others. Through these moving personal histories, Monique Roffey charts our contemporary moment: when it's more important than ever that we examine the stories we tell and how we tell them.