 It 2009, it was the Orange Prize Youth Panel Choice and the Big Red Read Award.Evaristo has been praised for her historical approach within "Blonde Roots".In the UK, "The Independent" declared, ‘In her new novel, Bernardine Evaristo, never one to shrink from an experiment, has taken her boldest step to date and turned the whole thing on its head… One of the best things about this book is its bittersweet, riotous humour…Running through these pages is not just a feisty, hyperactive imagination asking ‘’what if”, but the unhealed African heart with the question, ‘‘how does it feel?”.