NW is Zadie Smith's masterful novel about London life. 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". (A.N. 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). Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. She is the author of the novels White Teeth The Autograph Man & On Beauty & of a collection of essays Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People."