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Guinevere Glasfurd



Guinevere Glasfurd's short fiction has appeared in Mslexia, the Scotsman and in a collection from The National Galleries of Scotland. The Words In My Hand, her first novel, was written with the support of a grant from Arts Council England. She manages the Words and Women Twitter feed, a voluntary organisation representing women writers in the East of England.
 

 
Novels
   The Words in My Hand (2016)
   The Year Without Summer (2020)
   Privilege (2022)
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Award nominations
2020 HWA Gold Crown Award (shortlist) : The Year Without Summer
2017 Waverton Good Read Award (nominee) : The Words in My Hand
2016 Costa Book Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : The Words in My Hand


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Breaking the Maafa Chain (2021)
Anni Domingo
"Part fact, part fiction, Breaking the Maafa Chain is an important book, beautifully told. Domingo's premise is a bold and uncompromising one - taking what is known, the story of Salimatu, the 'black princess', Sarah Forbes Bonetta, and weaving through it the story of her fictionalised sister, Fatmata, Faith. Domingo makes an eloquent point: that although the sisters suffered different fates, both were unfree: Fatmata enslaved in North America and Salimatu gifted to Queen Victoria, and utterly at her whim.It is a story that has resonance today, where Meghan Markle was expected to shape herself to a white institution, to belong."

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