Blonde Roots: Bernardine Evaristo in conversation with Dr Caroline Bressey

The Women's Library, The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT, England

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Bernardine Evaristo reads from her first fully-prose novel Blonde Roots published by Penguin. It’s a slavery story with a difference: Africans enslave Europeans over a four hundred year period.

The protagonist is a white woman from Europa who lives out her adult life as a slave in the New World. Satirical, tragic, imaginative – it’s a new spin on slavery and women.

Bernardine Evaristo is the author of the novel-in-verse Lara which traces the roots of a mixed-race family over seven generations, and The Emperor’s Babe, the groundbreaking story of a Sudanese girl who grows up in Roman London 1800 years ago.