”. The author nods to it in her Channel 4 adaptation when, just like Bridget, her heroine dons an inappropriate bunny costume for a party.
Rather than a Tarts and Vicars fancy dress party, Queenie wears hers to a work Halloween do, noting that her newspaper employer has the budget for a roller disco but none to mark Black History Month. The scene is the perfect encapsulation of Carty-Williams’ voice and vision: a frank, funny and knowing dissection of what it means to be a young black woman.
It’s something that 25-year-old British-Jamaican south Londoner Queenie is struggling to figure out. When we first meet her, she is in the middle of a transvaginal ultrasound that delivers bad news. This proves the understandable catalyst for a quarter life crisis that includes her long-term boyfriend Tom breaking up with her, a move into a grotty house share and a desperate, unsuccessful attempt to mend herself with reckless sexual encounters.
While many of the themes – insecurity, identity, loneliness and intergenerational trauma – are universal, there is a rich specificity to Queenie that gives it a clear-eyed focus, especially when it comes to romantic relationships. As she self-destructs, having terrible sex with terrible, mostly white men, Queenie’s self-worth plummets, her own valuation of herself nose-diving to meet that of those who regard black women only in terms of their sexuality and bodies.) shines.
When the novel was released, it was a phenomenon, its bright pink cover poking out of the top of every other tote bag across the UK. Five years later, the series feels slightly less revelatory. Despite references to vaping, TikTok and voicenotes, making this incarnation ofWhat validates Queenie’s existence in the pantheon of TV’s flawed female leads is Brown’s star quality, Carty-Williams’ sharp observations and the show’s joyful love letter to south London.
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