What a truly incredible book! Listening to this as an audiobook made it even more enjoyable, as each voice was clearly defined in tone and performance - kudos to Anna-Maria Nabirye.

I really enjoyed how Bernardine Evaristo intertwined all the different voices, characters and experiences, via family, friendship, love, sex, community and societal roles. Furthermore, I feel like I struck gold with this book, as it focuses on not just Black experiences in England, but also Black experiences that intersect away from hetero- and cisnormative expectations. Every character is multidimensional, not defined solely by their gender or the relationship models they chose for their lives, but by their wants, fears, desires, past, present, future.

Reading this book has definitely opened my eyes as to how White and predominately male my shelf (and media consumption in general) has been up until now, something which I am definitely aiming to remedy in my TBRs from now on. Suffice to say: I'm pretty damn excited.