Candice Carty-Williams
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Press clippings
Queenie review
Queenie is a crude parody of real women.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 10th June 2024Defining Queenie as merely a "Black Bridget Jones" misses the point of a nuanced, important TV show
The character and series, beloved by so many, deserves more.
Charley Ross, Radio Times, 7th June 2024Queenie review
You'll be rooting for this modern-day Austen heroine to find Mr Right.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 5th June 2024The black Bridget Jones exploring love, race and identity
Creating a Bridget Jones-esque character is nothing new. In hundreds of books, films and TV series you will find chaotic, boy-obsessed millennial women all in pursuit of the same goal: finding their one true love. But one of those characters that has managed to cut through is Queenie.
Yasmin Rufo, BBC, 4th June 2024Queenie review
Bitingly funny adaptation lives up to the brilliant book.
Katie Rosseinsky, The Independent, 4th June 2024Queenie review
A first-rate character study you can't help but fall in love with.
Benji Wilson, The Telegraph, 4th June 2024Queenie review
Dionne Brown excels in the small-screen adaptation of a powerful novel about one black twentysomething Londoner navigating modern life.
Katherine McLaughlin, The List, 4th June 2024"I wanted Queenie in everyone's house": Candice Carty-Williams's era-defining novel explodes on to TV
Her literary debut was a smash-hit tale of female self-discovery. As it gets its long-awaited television debut, the author talks breakups, Bridget Jones and why Ian McEwan gets an easier ride than she does.
Nadia Khomami, The Guardian, 31st May 2024