Jamaica Road

A compelling exploration of the awkward beauty of coming-of-age, the exhilarating torrent of young love, and the complicated quest of immigrant home-making -all packed into a considered inter-family drama rife with secrets, surprises and characters you can root for .>

About the author

Lisa Smith is a writer from South London born to Caribbean parents. She has an MA in Creative & Life Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she won the Pat Kavanagh Prize in 2019. Her short story Auld Lang Syne won the 2017 Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize and in 2020 she was selected to join the London Library Emerging Writers Programme. Jamaica Road is her first novel.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Smith, Smith Lisa
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 11.06.2026
• EAN: 9780349703596
• ISBN: 978-0-349-70359-6
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction & related items, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Relating to Black British Caribbean people, Fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural, FICTION / Immigration, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Narrative theme: diversity, equity, equality, inclusion