Girl, Woman, Other and The Testaments - Joint Winners of the 2019 Booker Prize Grove Press Chris Simms has created a

Chris Simms has created a character who ranks alongside the best of Ruth Rendell's classic portrayals of psychological cripples

where her father is commemorated on the Thiepval Monument

Broken bodies

and MI6 double agent Paul Dark stands alongside mourners at the funeral of Sir Colin Templeton

A series of threats persuade these two that they will be best served quitting the mainland for a while and so they both find suitable excuses: Aristotle has to transport a sick student home to Rhodos

Girl, Woman, Other and The Testaments - Joint Winners of the 2019 Booker Prize Grove Press Chris Simms has created aGirl, 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