NW by Zadie Smith A leathery bog-man transforms an

A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair

An opposing pair

there are ostentatious displays of wealth and even more lavish displays of decadency

and the sky is not the sky of this world

His young daughter falls ill

NW by Zadie Smith A leathery bog-man transforms anZadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic NW follows four Londoners Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan after they've 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 they've made, the people they once were and are now, can suddenly, rapidly unravel. Funny, poignant