Swing time

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017br>br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017br>br>''Smith''s finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous'' Observer br>br>A dazzlingly exuberant novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the critically acclaimed author of White Teeth, On Beauty and Grand Union br>br>Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what it means to belong, what it means to be free. It''s a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten either.br>br>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 . . .br>br>''Superb'' Financial Times ''Breathtaking'' TLS ''Pitch-perfect'' Daily Telegraphbr>br>''There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith'' Telegraph>