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Girl, Woman, Other and The Testaments - Joint Winners of the 2019 Booker Prize Grove Press prisoners compete as gladiators forGirl, Woman, Other This is Britain as you've never seen it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty first, Girl Woman Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a