'Smith's finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous' * Observer*

'Smith's finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous' * Observer*

'Superb'** Financial Times 'Breathtaking' TLS 'Pitch-perfect' Daily Telegraph

'A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class... A page-turner that's also beautifully written ' * Glamour*

'There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' TelegraphSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017

A dazzlingly exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty**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.

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 . . .