Queenie
This week the girls get stuck into Candice Carty-Williams' timely and hugely important "Queenie"
What did they come across? Well...among others:
- How important it is to have heroines (because yes Queenie is a female hero) that are not trying to make you, the reader, like them. Which made us love Queenie even more tbh
- That maybe the romantic love story isn't the thing we're interested in
- How relatable and heartbreaking Queenie's self-destructive actions are, BUT
- How we can't wrap our heads around the toll systematic racism must have on someone's mental health. Seriously, it's terrifying.
But you want to know about the tangents right? Well, as usual, this week did not disappoint:
- Jungkookie-Oppa had a livestream this week. And his hair was tied up. Chloe had many thoughts
-You all might have seen on Instagram that LC's baby sister has started writing fanfic. So we talk about that for a bit...
-And y'know, that Katie's trapped on campus during this latest lockdown. So there's the whole zombie apocalypse vibe she's rockin right now...
Queenie is available on Kindle and at all good booksellers (shop independent if you can!)
You can find more information on Candice Carty-Williams at http://www.candicecartywilliams.com/ and follow her on Twitter at @CandiceC_W
Catch the full episode
More on Queenie:
Queenie Jenkins is a twenty-five-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth.
As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, “What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?”—all of the questions today’s woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her.
With “fresh and honest” (Jojo Moyes) prose, Queenie is a remarkably relatable exploration of what it means to be a modern woman searching for meaning in today’s world.
For more on Candice Carty Willliams, visit