Swing Time LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017

Superb' Financial Times 'Breathtaking' TLS 'Pitchperfect' Daily Telegraph. A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class. A pageturner that's also beautifully written ' Glamour. There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' Telegraph. SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017. A dazzlingly exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multiawardwinning author of White Teeth and On Beauty. Two brown girls dream of being dancers but only one, Tracey, has talent.

It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten either. Bursting with energy, rhythm and movement, Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet. It is a story about music and identity, race and class, those who follow the dance and those who lead it.