Queenie returns, older, messier and still working
Candice Carty-Williams brings Queenie Jenkins back as she tries to hold life together through heartbreak, work pressure, housing worries and complicated love. A sharp, funny and emotionally honest return to modern womanhood, friendship and family.
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Queenie returns, older, messier and still working
Candice Carty-Williams brings Queenie Jenkins back as she tries to hold life together through heartbreak, work pressure, housing worries and complicated love. A sharp, funny and emotionally honest return to modern womanhood, friendship and family.
- Book Synopsis
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Queenie Jenkins is working on it.
Award-winning author Candice Carty-Williams returns with a scalpel-sharp, poignant and hilarious new book that shines a dazzling light on the realities of modern womanhood.
How is it possible for one woman to hold it together when she's:
- Confronted with a racing biological clock when she doesn't even know if she wants kids.
- Trying to act normal when her heart is smashed into a million pieces.
- Ten times smarter than the people she’s working for.
- Priced out of the housing market in the place she grew up.
- Stuck in a situationship when all she wants is the love of her life back . . .
Bigger. Not better. Older. Not wiser. Queenie Jenkins is working on it.
Award-winning author Candice Carty-Williams returns with a scalpel-sharp, poignant and hilarious new book that shines a dazzling light on the realities of modern womanhood.
Ideal for readers who…
- loved Queenie and want to catch up with Queenie Jenkins at a new life stage.
- enjoy contemporary fiction about friendship, family, work, love and messy adulthood.
- like novels that balance humour, heartbreak and sharp social observation.
- are drawn to stories about modern womanhood, housing pressure and complicated relationships.
- follow Candice Carty-Williams and want her latest character-led paperback fiction.
- About The Author
- Candice Carty-Williams was born and raised in south London, by way of Jamaica. She is a novelist, showrunner, culture writer, and author of Book of the Year Award winning and Sunday Times bestselling Queenie, as well as the young adult novella Empress and Aniya, and the Sunday Times bestselling People Person. She adapted Queenie for Channel 4 and Hulu in 2024, and wrote and showran original drama, Champion, for Netflix and BBC One in 2023. In 2016, Candice created and launched the Guardian and 4th Estate 4thWrite Prize for underrepresented writers, the first inclusive initiative of its kind in book publishing. Candice is the ex Guardian Review books columnist, has interviewed and written for i-D, Vogue, The Face, the Sunday Times, BEAT Magazine, Black Ballad and many more publications. Queenie received global acclaim, and was described as vital, disarmingly honest and boldly political. It was adapted for Channel 4 and Hulu in 2024, and her original drama, Champion, aired on BBC One in the UK, and on Netflix globally, in 2023, receiving five stars across the board.
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- ISBN
- 9781409198987
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Trapeze, (02 July 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 425
- Weight
- 540 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 152 x 34 mm
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