Blonde Roots Evaristo Bernardine

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHERLONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009WINNER OF THE ORANGE YOUTH PANEL AWARD 2009FINALIST FOR THE HURSTON WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2010 'A phenomenal book. Think The Handmaid's Tale meets Noughts and Crosses with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. It is so ingenious and so novel.

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 PodcastWelcome to a world turned upside down. 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