The Other Woman

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Excellent . . . [Jones] delves into the motives of a homegrown monster . . . delivers a tightly coiled story in The Other Woman and fills it with believable characters."— Associated Press

Evaristo shows women as social climbers, single mothers, sourvivors of abuse, victims of sexism and racism, lovers, wives, widows, daughters, grandmothers, VPs, teachers, cleaning women, artists, college students, school dropouts, immigrants and the children of immigrants, and in many other roles - but all of her characters are fighters, in their very own way. Usually, I love polyphonic novels - my favorite book of 2018 was There There, which also features 12 protagonists - but over long passages of Evaristo's effort, I was rather bored and felt disaffected: The relentlessly descriptive re-tellings of whole life stories plus the additive effect of the strict, enumerative structure feels exhausting (we are introduced to one character after the other, then there's an end where they meet and an epilogue), and the narrative intent, while important, always remains visible - this prose does not carry its readers away with emotion or urgency. Begs to be devoured in one sitting . . . deliciously dramatic and sinister . . . If you're in the market for a lighter suspense read with a genuinely jaw-dropping finale, Sandie Jones' debut belongs on your TBR."— Crime by the Book As I wrote the novel, I came to relate to Bea even more strongly – like me, she moved to London from the north of England seeking a different kind of life from the one she had grown up expecting to lead. She was ambitious and independent. She was unmarried and childless (and given the shortage of men in the years after the First World War, she seemed likely to remain that way) – but she set out to make a different kind of life for herself. I admired that, and I admired her courage in moving hundreds of miles from her home town at a time when that was fairly unusual. Even though one of the main themes is being a person of colour in a world of white supremacy (open or hidden, depending on situation), and even though I belong to the entitled, privileged group of people who have a choice whether racism is a topic to be bothered with or not (as opposed to those who have to live with the issue whether they like it or not as it is imposed on them by a dominant culture), I strongly identified with all these characters' problems and issues with racism, - because their stories are told with a loving, caring voice that humanises the pain and injustice.

The third has Shirley (a friend of Amma’s since school, now veteran teacher whose greatest project as a teacher was Carole), Shirley’s mother Winsome (now retired in Barbados) and Penelope (a now retired colleague of Shirley’s who resented the increasing multi-culturalism of their school for many years, while secretly struggling with finding out on her 16th birthday she was a foundling).

A book I have read and loved three times so I was delighted to be present for its win and to get these photos

At long last, Emily has finally found the man of her dreams...Adam. Just one itsy-bitsy problem. Marrying Adam also means marrying the other woman in his life.... his mother!! Poor Emily. Will she be able to open her fiancés eyes before it’s too late? There’s only room for one woman in Adam’s life...but who exactly will that be? You’ll just have to read it to find out!