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    Much more than a ‘black Bridget Jones’

    by Afua Hirsch Apr 01, 2019 1 minute
    Carty-Williams’ debut set off a bidding war in the U.K., earning a six-figure advance

    THE LITERARY WORLD HAS A PROBLEM with labels. Take Queenie, marketed as a “black Bridget Jones,” and therefore belonging to a genre you might reasonably expect to know. You would be forgiven for approaching Queenie as a tragicomic story of

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