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Swing Time
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them. Moving from Northwest London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time.
Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early 20s, never to be revisited but never quite forgotten, either....
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- ZFB
- 30-04-17
Brilliant !
Pippa Bennett-Warner reads Zadie Smith's words brilliantly. I loved every chapter and cried at the end . Thoroughly recommend!
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- alice gimpel
- 02-01-23
amazing performance and interesting exploration of relationship
Story took a bit to get into, however once gripped, the exploration of the relationships to the narrator were very interesting and became deeper as the book progressed.
The performance really helped make the story more lively!
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-08-18
Just brilliant
Acute observations that all can relate to here, characterisation so visual, really didn't want the story to end, sad but true to life events, narrated brilliantly, great read.
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- FJF
- 23-08-18
excellent narrator and wonderful story
narrator was so good. really giving life to the characters. the story was great too. gently unpicking the subtleties of childhood friendships
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- Paul D
- 02-03-17
Great
Loved this book and my only criticism was regarding the narration. Beautifully read with some good voices but not convinced that the style matched the storyteller
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- Pam Reed
- 13-02-18
really enjoyed it
lovely to have a new book from zadie smith. always good to have such a clear insight into someone's world
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- Justine
- 01-04-17
Excellent narration but not as wowed by plot.
Amazing narration and the standard exceptionally skilled writing of Zadie Smith but not convinced by the story and found myself getting bored by the meandering plot half way through.
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- Karen Erdpohl
- 27-11-23
Brilliant Story
I love listening to Zadie Smith's books, this is my fourth and possibly my favourite.
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- boo65
- 03-08-21
Brilliant narration
I love the detail in this book especially around growing up in the 80s. The narrator is excellent and would listen to others by her definitely. I think the story itself was overlong which why I hate it 4 stars.
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- Jo
- 28-08-17
The narrator was brilliant
Good book, interesting comment on class and culture. Really bought to life by Pippa Bennett-Warner, she was great.
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