Blonde Roots

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009 WINNER OF THE ORANGE YOUTH PANEL AWARD 2009 FINALIST FOR THE HURSTON WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2010 ´A phenomenal book. It is so ingenious and so novel. Think The Handmaid´s Tale meets Noughts and Crosses with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. This should be thought of as a feminist classic.´ Women´s Prize for Fiction Podcast Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris, from England, is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next, someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the hold of a slave-ship sailing to the New World . . . In this fantastically imaginative inversion of the transatlantic slave trade - in which ´whytes´ are enslaved by black people - Bernardine Evaristo has created a thought-provoking satire that is as accessible and readable as it is intelligent and insightful. Blonde Roots brings the shackles and cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises timely questions about the society of today. ´A bold and brilliant game of counterfactual history. Evaristo keep[s] her wit and anger at a spicy simmer throughout´ Daily Telegraph ´So human and real. Re-imagines past and present with refreshing humour and intelligence´ Guardian ´A brilliant satire whose flashes of comedy make the underlying tragedy all the more poignant´ Scotland on Sunday