Zadie Smiths brilliant tragi-comic NWfollows four Londoners - Leah Natalie Felix and Nathan - after theyve 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 theyve made the people they once were and are now can suddenly rapidly unravel. A portrait of modern urban lifeNWis funny sad and urgent - as brimming with vitality as the city itself. A Granta Best Young British Novelist 2013 Intensely funny richly varied always unexpected. A joyous optimistic angry masterpiece. No better English novel will be published this year. Philip Hensher Daily Telegraph Astonishing dazzling. Really - without exaggeration - not since Dickens has there been a better observer of London scenes. Zadie Smith is a genius. Its hard to imagine a better novel this year - or this decade. A. N. Wilson Absolutely brilliant. So electrically authentic. Time Captivating. Funny sexy weird full of acute social comedy. Shes up there with the best around. Evening Standard Marvellous . . . crackles with reflections on race music and migration. A lyrical fiction for our times. Spectator Undeniably brilliant . . . rush out and buy this book. Observer