NW

From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMENS PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, White Teeth and On Beauty - a masterful and intimate novel of modern London life

A triumph. Every sentence singsGuardian

Intensely funny, richly varied, always unexpected. A joyous, optimistic, angry masterpieceDaily Telegraph

Smiths most satisfying novel. Funny, sexy, weird, full of acute social comedy. Shes up there with the best aroundEvening Standard

Zadie Smiths brilliant tragicomic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after theyve left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter they each find that the choices theyve made, the people they once were and are now, can suddenly, rapidly unravel. Funny, poignant and vividly contemporary, NW is as brimming with vitality as the city itself.