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Swing Time

By: Zadie Smith
Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
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Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them. Moving from Northwest London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time.

Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early 20s, never to be revisited but never quite forgotten, either....

©2016 Zadie Smith (P)2016 Penguin Audio Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction Thought-Provoking Africa

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Acute observations that all can relate to here, characterisation so visual, really didn't want the story to end, sad but true to life events, narrated brilliantly, great read.

Just brilliant

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narrator was so good. really giving life to the characters. the story was great too. gently unpicking the subtleties of childhood friendships

excellent narrator and wonderful story

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Loved this book and my only criticism was regarding the narration. Beautifully read with some good voices but not convinced that the style matched the storyteller

Great

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lovely to have a new book from zadie smith. always good to have such a clear insight into someone's world

really enjoyed it

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Amazing narration and the standard exceptionally skilled writing of Zadie Smith but not convinced by the story and found myself getting bored by the meandering plot half way through.

Excellent narration but not as wowed by plot.

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I love listening to Zadie Smith's books, this is my fourth and possibly my favourite.

Brilliant Story

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Pippa Bennett-Warner reads Zadie Smith's words brilliantly. I loved every chapter and cried at the end . Thoroughly recommend!

Brilliant !

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Story took a bit to get into, however once gripped, the exploration of the relationships to the narrator were very interesting and became deeper as the book progressed.

The performance really helped make the story more lively!

amazing performance and interesting exploration of relationship

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An engaging story. Not sure if the writer knew how to end it. I found the ending weak.

How good the reader was

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The story is outstanding yet uncomfortably close to home and well observed.
Writing is brilliant and Bennett Warner’s performance is both compelling and skilful.

Masterful

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