Fire Rush - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023 AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR It''s time to dance, to love, to be free... ''Mesmerising'' BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other ''Fabulous'' MAGGIE O''FARRELL, author of Hamnet ''Beautiful'' CALEB AZUMAH NELSON, author of Open Water Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club on the outskirts of London. Then everything changes. Yamaye meets Moose, who she falls deeply in love with, and who offers her the chance of freedom and escape. After their relationship is brutally cut short, Yamaye goes on a dramatic journey of transformation that leads her to Jamaica, where past and present collide with explosive consequences. ***A SUNDAY TIMES BEST NOVEL AND GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2023*** ''A wonderfully literary, musical and original novel about a culture and era that rarely makes the pages of fiction'' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ''Scorching... We follow Yamaye through love, loss and peril, as she chases her dreams and connects with her heritage'' GUARDIAN ''Ambitious, atmospheric... A novel of passion and anger'' SUNDAY TIMES ''A rich and rhythmic story about love and music'' I

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline Crooks
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.03.2024
• EAN: 9781529925036
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-2503-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 199 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Reggae, Bristol, London, Greater London, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Jamaica, Reggae and Ska, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Somerset, Bristol, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Relating to Black British Caribbean people, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage