New novels from Zadie Smith and Ali Smith announced

Zadie Smith’s new work, Swing Time, is a story of ‘two brown girls who dream of being dancers’, while Ali Smith’s Autumn will form part of a Seasonal quartet

Zadie Smith’s first novel since 2012’s NW, a story about “two brown girls [who] dream of being dancers”, will come out this winter, her publishers have announced.

Smith’s Swing Time is “a story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them”, said Hamish Hamilton. Set in north-west London and west Africa, it will follow the lives of two girls who both want to become dancers, but only one of whom has talent.

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