'Girl, Woman, Other': 12 unique and vibrant voices, sharing their different stories and experiences of Britain across the decades.

Evaristo beautifully covers topics of race, class, sexuality and gender, exploring the different positions of all. It's brilliant writing that allows us to find positions of understanding and empathy for all characters regardless of how flawed they, their choices, prejudices and ideologies, may be.

I personally loved the use of the hybrid poetry/prose form, the control mirroring that our narrators try, and often struggle, to keep, whilst simultaneously managing to be fluid enough to allow these different voices and moments to take on their own individual sense of vitality.

Though the core themes of this - deservedly award winning - novel were largely unfamiliar for me, it felt essential from the very first chapter. A contemporary novel that deals with contemporary issues as well as historical, the readership of this work should not be felt to be 'for' any one group. So many moments of this book were enlightening, affirming and even challenging. No one should miss a chance to celebrate it.

As character lives intersect, Evaristo shows the true scope of interconnectivity and the dependancy we all have upon one another. These separate stories cultivate into a picture of a richly diverse and ever-developing sense of home.

'It's easy to forget England is made up of many Englands'.