SWING TIME

Swing Time is probably Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel, it's bursting with energy, rhythm and movement.

It is a story about music and identity, race and class, those who follow the dance and those who lead it .

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.

It is a story about music and identity, race and class, those who follow the dance and those who lead it .

Swing Time - Zadie Smith -9780241980262 (mass market)