NW

<p><b>From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of <i>Swing Time White Teeth </i>and<i> On Beauty</i> - a masterful and intimate novel of modern London life<br><br></b><b>'A triumph. Every sentence sings' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><b><br>'Intensely funny richly varied always unexpected. A joyous optimistic angry masterpiece' <i>Daily Telegraph</i><br><br>'Smith's most satisfying novel. Funny sexy weird full of acute social comedy. She's up there with the best around' </b><i><b>Evening Standard</b><br></i><br>Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic <i>NW</i> follows four Londoners - Leah Natalie Felix and Nathan - after they've 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 they've made the people they once were and are now can suddenly rapidly unravel. Funny poignant and vividly contemporary <i>NW </i>is as brimming with vitality as the city itself.</p>