![]() Carty-Williams has taken a black woman’s story and made it a story of the age. The novel is about the life and loves of Queenie Jenkins, a vibrant, troubled 25-year-old British-Jamaican woman who is not having a very good year. ![]() Disney Entertainment’s brand has joined Channel 4 in the UK on the show, which the British network. Queenie is a new adult novel written by British author Candice Carty-Williams and published by an imprint of Trapeze published by Orion in 2019. This is the fertile heart of Carty-Williams’ writing: complex dynamics of interracial friendship, of the gaps that exist between generations, layered with the specific intricacy of a Jamaican immigrant family and the blurring boundaries of workplace relationships, are spun into an entertaining seam. Onyx Collective has boarded Candice Carty-Williams’ buzzy British drama series Queenie. Carty-Williams manages to engage the head and the heart, plunging the reader into Queenie’s descent, while simultaneously helping us unpack it. But like a south London Kacey Musgraves, she's able to transform her wry observations and loving self-awareness. The shero of the novel, Queenie Jenkins, is 25, a newspaper journalist, and a Jamaican British woman looking for love in all the wrong places. Her title character is a woman you both know and cannot forget. Queenie, the debut novel by Candice Carty-Williams has been called the new Bridget Jones. ![]() ![]() Candice Carty-Williams, a young Londoner, has a flair for story-telling that appears effortlessly authentic. But that would be to profoundly underestimate this debut novel, which tells a far deeper story than the one it has been compared to. ![]() Queenie as a tragicomic story of womanhood, updated for the Tinder age perhaps, with a black body occupying a space already familiar to its white predecessors. ![]()
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