A saga of a book. One that grips you and involves you so wholly. This is set in a time before my existence and yet speaks to me as if it were timeless.

Beautiful and hilarious and satisfying and infuriating, one after the other and sometimes all at once. I must say I fully understand the hype.

It took me a while to get stuck into Archies storyarc at the beginning ( despite the excellent book s acting from Lenny Henry) but once I’d fallen into the story I kept falling until Smith suddenly and yet gently replanted my feet to the ground.

Astounding voice work on this audio book truly (I read and listened simultaneously and interchangeably)

Amazing novel and to think this was Zadie Smith’s debut is impressive. Highly recommended.

4.5 rounded up.