![]() 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. ALAN CHEUSE: The main character is a woman named Doris Scagglethorpe. ![]() Evaristo keep her wit and anger at a spicy simmer throughout' Daily Telegraph 'So human and real. British writer Bernardine Evaristo asked that question in her new novel, 'Blonde Roots.' Alan Cheuse has this review. 'A bold and brilliant game of counterfactual history. Blonde Roots brings the shackles and cries of long ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises timely questions about the society of today. ![]() 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. 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. One minute, Doris, from England, is playing hide and seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. This should be thought of as a feminist classic.' Women's Prize for Fiction Podcast Welcome to a world turned upside down. Think The Handmaid's Tale meets Noughts and Crosses with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. ![]() What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reverse. 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. Read 594 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. ![]()
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