Everyone should read this book , regardless of what your race or gender.

It’s gives such great insight that you bound to learn something.

This is a broad ranging non-fiction book written by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené details the multitude of systemically institutional and societal prejudices against black women throughout their day-to-day lives. It is based on interviews for their similarly named podcast and it is worth checking out the audiobook which includes excerpts of these interviews.

The book includes chapters covering education, business and entrepreneurship, personal finance (black women have highest level of debt and arrears), lack of black representation in media, dating, marriage and the impact prejudice has on mental health.

The range of personal experiences lays bare the double standards experienced across all aspects of life and for that reason this book deserves to be read widely for those interested in understanding the everyday racism (and sexism) experiences which underpin the Black Lives Matter movement.

As a self help book, I’m uncomfortable giving feedback as I am not the target audience. However, it is amazingly written and a book I found helpful in order to engage with some of my students. It really enabled me to engage a little more and even suggest this book to them.

I was lucky enough to meet the authors and talk about the book when it came out. It's a great, relevant and thought provoking read, especially for those of us who might call ourselves first or second wave feminists who see less closely the battle faced by young women of colour every day. Should be on the reading list of every employer and provider of private or public services.

I was sad to see some of the negativity around it ("is not this or it is not that ") but wisdom and inspiration come in many forms and this is written by two outstanding young women in a style and with content to speak to their peers and to get everyone's attention. It deserves to do brilliantly and be read by everyone.

Such a provocative and life-changing book. A must read for anyone concerned with social justice, social mobility or just life in modern Britain, regardless of your ethnicity.

One of the most powerful books I’ve read this year. I want to buy a copy for all of my friends! (You should definitely do that.) Writers like these need to be heard. Sassy and sophisticated.

This book is a must for all the independent ladies out there. A fabulous read and some interesting points!

This took me so long to read because it’s so brilliantly researched and full of shocking, often terrifying, facts. The book is so inspirational, I’m going to be recommending this book for months.

I was excited to read Slay in Your Lane by Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke as the book had been the subject of a bidding war between publishers. Its sub-title, The Black Girl Bible, would probably indicate that, as a white woman, I may well not be its targeted demographic but if intersectionality is going to mean anything then white women like myself need to listen more when black women speak – and this book is a great read.

The book is pitched more as a self-help book, a series of reassuring and supportive articles from a big sister, rather than as an academic insight. Nevertheless, it excellently highlights the issues and challenges for black women trying to survive and thrive in white spaces in UK society. Covering areas from graduate life to business, from cosmetics to mental health, Yoki and Elizabeth explain the microaggressions that black girls and women have to overcome, interspersed with excerpts from interviews with high-profile black British women who bring these points to life through their own experiences. A revealing and insightful book, and it’s great to see black British women on the bookshelf as usually such inspirational guides come from American writers.

This book is going to be really helpful to a lot of people. After meeting the authors during a publisher event, I wanted to find out more and reading this book was really eye-opening to the daily challenges black women face. It’s informative and thought-provoking, intelligent and inspiring.

A really interesting, thought-provoking and eye-opening read. A tiny bit soap-boxy in places (is discarding plantain in the belief that it's an over-ripe banana really a 'microaggression' or is it just simply not being familiar with something?). Having said that, this book should be read by everyone - of all skin colours - because it has something to say to people of all races - it may be intended as an inspirational read for young black women but it also shines a light on the racism and sexism that black women encounter on a daily basis and which white readers may not even realise goes on - until they read this book.

I should say at the outset that I am absolutely not the target market for this. But I read it because I want to get more of an understanding of the challenges that black young women face and get some perspective on it - not only because I find it really important to understand other people's experiences, but because I manage a team with several young black women in it and I want to be the best manager to them that I can be.

And this gave me so much to think about - I can't make any judgement on how it works for young Black British women, but I can say that I think it is important reading for people who are *not* young Black British women so that they can get some sort of insight into the challenges and prejudices they face.

Really good - and the authors are so young and talented

One thing that I feel I need to state: I am a Black British Woman. In fact I am roughly the same age as the authors of this book. I am who this book is supposed to be marketed towards, and yet - I don't think this book is actually for me.

Without a shadow of a doubt, I am 100% here for the importance, necessity and the information highlighted in this book. However I am in two minds about my review.

The book does a great job of taking the reader thorough a range of milestones in a Black British female's life. From the shared experience of having immigrant parents, being over looked in high school, finding yourself at university, and battling to stay yourself in the working world.

For me however. None of the information I read was new. For the first few pages it was great to see my experience's so clearly reflected on the page but that got old very quickly. It was pages and pages, anecdote after anecdote and chapter after chapter of me thinking. "Yeah yeah yeah, tell me something I don't know" The book didn't give any answers or solutions to the numerous highlighted unfairness's that is the black female experience - and I didn't expect it too, how could it? But after a while it just became a tad depressing.

Though there were a few nuggets of wisdom I will squirrel away and apply to my day to day life. It felt like reading an article - or a dissertation - one with a point, quote comment system, chocked full of statistics, that ended with a conclusion whose aim is never provide solution.

Personally I would say this book was best read by 15-21 year olds. Those currently living - or about to live a lot of the issues this book raises. To arm and prepare them for the unfairness of life just because they were born black and female. Another thought that kept cropping up as I was reading is; "man I wish I had read this while I was doing my GCSE's - my whole educational outlook would have been more focused"

I would also say this should be read by pretty much every other race. The book brings together a range of smart, successful and inspiring women - who have all been subjected to racism, and discrimination in some form or another. Hearing their stories, their views, their feelings. It's a rare insight into Black British Women, one that could help debunk a range of stigmas.

I will be championing this book and recommending it to those who would benefit from the anecdotes, experiences and words of wisdom, but to be honest it won't be me or my friends.

Firstly I am well aware that I'm probably not the target market for this book, but I still wanted to read it!

This is a beautifully planned and presented book, The kind of guide every teenager needs to read, the guidance sought from a stranger, the tales of amazing women laid bare to try and get their message across.

It tugged me this way and that, it is such a polished and immeasurably valuable book, it should be read far and wide as it even drummed in to me to get on and slay in my lane too!

Loved it, Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to read it early!

Another timely book that shouldn't be needed but is necessary. I thought it was brilliantly put together and endlessly fascinating. .

I was so ready to learn how to “Slay in your lane”, but this took me by surprise. It reads more like a Sociology thesis.

“You’re black and you’re female, you have to try twice as hard as anyone else”

I guess the saying about not judging a book by its cover couldn’t be any more accurate for SIYL. Coated in bubblegum pink and scarlet red, with those beautiful and accomplished young black females plastered on the cover, I expected something more light-hearted and “fun”. Instead, the decisions I thought I (as a young black female) had made about my career path, interests & just about everything else, was challenged. I started to identify nuances in upbringing, socialisation, conversations...to do with race, gender, and class.

“We are tattooed with our otherness...hypervisible in predominantly white spaces”

I feel like I can see clearer now, and drop a line from SIYL in just about every policy conversation abou protected characteristics, differential attainment, access rights and issues for minority groups, etc.

I think SIYL achieved its goal of showing this black female that “there is no limit to the roles [I] can carve for [myself] in the world”. Thank you Yomi and Elizabeth

This book is brilliant and so timely - but don’t listen to me, I’m just some random white girl. Listen to Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené and all the amazing black women interviewed for this book about growing up as a black girl in Britain today. Incredibly well researched, covering topics from education to dating, this really is a bible. I’m honoured to have been able to read it and be thoroughly educated on issues I don’t know enough about. It should be a handbook in every high school classroom.

(I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review)