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978-1409198970

Queenie Is Working on It

Queenie Is Working on It

by Candice Carty-Williams

Publisher Trapeze

Genre: General Fiction

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*Independent Bookshop Edition*

'I LAUGHED AND CRIED...I FLEW THROUGH EVERY PAGE!' - Jennie Godfrey
'NO ONE TELLS A STORY LIKE CARTY WILLIAMS...FULL OF SO MUCH HEART, HUMOUR AND HONESTY' - Bolu Babalola
'FIZZING WITH LIFE, FUN AND SENSUAL ENERGY' - Diana Evans

'A WELCOMED RETURN...ENOUGH GASPS TO LEAVE YOU BURSTING AT THE SEAMS' - Yomi Ṣode

How is it possible for one woman to hold it together when she's:

Confronted with a racing biological clock when she doesn't even know if she wants kids.
Trying to act normal when her heart is smashed into a million pieces.
Ten times smarter than the people she's working for.
Priced out of the housing market in the place she grew up.
Stuck in a situationship when all she wants is the love of her life back . . .

Bigger. Not better. Older. Not wiser. Queenie Jenkins is working on it.

Award-winning author Candice Carty-Williams returns with a scalpel-sharp, poignant and hilarious new book that shines a dazzling light on the realities of modern womanhood.

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About the Author

Candice Carty-Williams

Candice Carty-Williams is a senior marketing executive at Vintage.


In 2016, she created and launched the Guardian and 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, which aims to find, champion, and celebrate underrepresented writers. She contributes regularly to i-D, Refinery29, BEAT Magazine, and more, and her pieces, especially those about blackness, sex, and identity, have been shared globally.


Queenie is her first novel (April 2019, Trapeze).

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