NW

Summary: 21st century London comes vividly to life in Zadie Smith's first novel since the bestselling ON BEAUTY. Somewhere in the northwest of the city stands the Caldwell housing estate, a relic of '70s urban planning. Leah, an administrator for the lottery, grew up there with her friends. 30 years later these Caldwell kids and their partners live only a few streets apart, yet inhabit separate worlds. NW brilliantly depicts this modern urban zone - familiar to city dwellers everywhere - in a tragicomic novel as mercurial as the city itself.