The first black woman to win the Booker recounts her lengthy journey from grotty London flats to an audience with the Queen in her eventful hymn to perseverance
. This historic moment was polarising; some argued that it was a huge disappointment that rules were broken to split the prize the first time a Black woman won. But in, she makes clear where she stands: “Two women, two races, two nations, two generations – two members of the human race.”
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