NW By Zadie Smith (Paperback, 2013)

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Coming soon as a BBC2 drama adaptation -- a masterful novel about London life from the bestselling prize-winning Zadie Smith Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners
- Leah Natalie Felix & Nathan
- after they've left their childhood council estate grown up & moved on to different lives From private houses to public parks at work & at play their city is brutal beautiful & complicated Yet after a chance encounter they each find that the choices they've made the people they once were & are now can suddenly rapidly unravel A portrait of modern urban life NW is funny sad & urgent
- as brimming with vitality as the city itself Praise for NW' Her dialogue sings & soars; terse packed & sassy Smith is simply wonderful Dickens's legitimate daughter' Boyd Tonkin Independent' Astonishing dazzling Really
- without exaggeration
- not since Dickens has there been a better observer of London scenes Zadie Smith is a genius It's hard to imagine a better novel this year
- or this decade' AN Wilson' Intensely funny richly varied always unexpected A joyous optimistic angry masterpiece No better English novel will be published this year' Philip Hensher Daily Telegraph' Absolutely brilliant So electrically authentic' TIME' Captivating Funny sexy weird full of acute social comedy like London She's up there with the best around' Evening Standard' Marvellous crackles with reflections on race music & migration A lyrical fiction for our times' Spectator' Undeniably brilliant rush out & buy this book' Observer