The 39-year-old said: “The book starts with Queenie living in the Norwich Yards which were a really tough place to live. “She lived in Queen Caroline’s Yard – which is in the Oak Street area of the ...

These days, Carty-Williams said she separates the Queenie of the book and the show. Now that she has seen the character through to the small screen, Carty-Williams was clear on her focus ...

The Norwich Historical Society still has a supply of “The 9-Mile Square.” In 2005, the year it was published, it won the Betty M. Linsley Award from the Association for the Study of Connecticut ...

The book is titled "Queenie" ant it's the first one for Carty-Williams. The book chronicles the journey of a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman named Queenie Jenkins who lives in London.

And then there’s her fraught relationship with her mother Sylvie, rooted in a childhood abandonment that forced Queenie to grow up too fast. Half a decade has elapsed since the book’s ...

Reacting to her win, Carty-Williams said: "I don't quite know how I feel about winning book of the year; I'm proud of myself, yes, and grateful to the incredible team that helped me get Queenie ...