NW

Zadie Smith has a most wonderful talent for creating believably flawed characters. In NW she also brings to life the jostled, uneven and sometimes desperate world of Willesden, in north west London.

Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan have all managed to move away from their childhoods on a council estate but they all find that, sometimes, just when you think you’ve escaped your past, it calls you back.