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Hello Mum is a novella written by British-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo. Published by Penguin Books in 2010, this epistolary novella explores London gang culture from the viewpoint of a 14-year-old boy, Jerome, who communicates with his mother through letters.
Bernardine’s verse novel The Emperor’s Babe was adapted into a BBC Radio 4 play in 2013 and her novella Hello Mum was adapted as a BBC Radio 4 play in 2012. In 2015 she wrote and presented a two-part BBC Radio 4 documentary called Fiery Inspiration: Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement.
La sua novella Hello Mum (Penguin, 2010) è stata adattata in una commedia della BBC Radio 4 nel 2012. Il suo romanzo del 2014 Mr Loverman (Penguin UK, 2013/ Akashic Books USA, 2014) parla di un settantenne londinese dei Caraibi, un omosessuale segreto che considera le sue opzioni dopo un matrimonio di 50 anni con sua moglie [18] .
BUY FROM PENGUIN. An epistolary novella told in the voice of a 14 year old boy writing to his mother who lives on a London estate and gets into trouble with a gang. In this fiction the issue of gang culture is neither demonised or glamourised.
Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo OBE FRSL FRSA (born 28 May 1959) is a British author and academic. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019 alongside Margaret Atwood 's The Testaments, making her the first Black woman to win the Booker.
16 gen 2010 · Hello Mum is part of the Quick Reads series. It is written as a letter from a 14 year old boy to his mother to explain the circumstances that led to a street gang stabbing in London. Evaristo skilfully describes the relationship between a mother and her son who is desperate for acceptance, belonging and security but natively makes ...
Bernardine Evaristo, MBE, is the award-winning author of eight books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora.Her novel Girl, Woman, Other made her the first black woman to win the Booker Prize in 2019, as well winning the Fiction Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 2020, where she also won Author of the Year, and the Indie Book Award.
