Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
He takes my hand,pulls me to him.'This is our dancing time.'
Yamaye lives for the weekend,when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt,an underground club in the industrial town on the outskirts of London where she was born and raised. A young woman unsure of her future,the sound is her guide - a chance to discover who she really is in the rhythms of those smoke-filled nights. In the dance-hall darkness,dub is the music of her soul,her friendships,her ancestry.
But everything changes when she meets Moose,the man she falls deeply in love with,and who offers her the chance of freedom and escape.
When their relationship is brutally cut short,Yamaye goes on a dramatic journey of transformation that takes her first to Bristol - where she is caught up in a criminal gang and the police riots sweeping the country - and then to Jamaica,where past and present collide with explosive consequences.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781787333635Number of pages: 352Weight: 468 gDimensions: 222 x 144 x 33 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Remarkable... In terms of sheer lyrical force it stands head and shoulders above most debuts.'- The Daily Telegraph
'I was blown away by Fire Rush - an exceptional and stunningly original novel by a major new writer... her mesmerising,imaginative and incantatory writing leaves us swaying to the bass of the visceral rhythms she so powerfully describes. By the end of the novel,I felt charged and changed and already longed to re-read it.'- Bernardine Evaristo
'This beautiful,sprawling narrative is wrought with an incredible precision and a musicality which carries every sentence. Crooks'novel haunts but make space for hope as well.'- Caleb Azumah Nelson
'Fire Rush... (is) a window into the dub scene at the time,with rhythmic,lyrical writing and a story about raving,love and the impact of police violence.'- Vogue
Jacqueline Crooks
Jacqueline Crooks is an award-winning Jamaican-born author of short fiction and the novel Fire Rush,which was shortlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction and the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023.
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