Swing Time cover art

Swing Time

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Swing Time

By: Zadie Smith
Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

About this listen

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....

©2016 Zadie Smith (P)2016 Penguin Audio Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction Thought-Provoking Africa

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Fruit of the Lemon cover art
My Brilliant Friend cover art
Bel Canto cover art
Anna Karenina cover art
The Interestings cover art
One for My Baby cover art
Fresh Air cover art
The Valley of Amazement cover art
Florence Grace cover art
All stars
Most relevant
Zadie Smith's novel absolutely brought alive by this superb reading of Swing Time. Each character distinct and memorable. Stellar work by Pippa Bennett-Warner. A terrific listening experience.

Superb performance

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The narrator is amazing. Great story. Zadie Smith excellent as always, creating a vivid depiction of London and all the wonderful multiplicities and complexities of human personality and behaviour. Would definitely recommend to all.

Excellently narrated.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
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.

Excellent narration but not as wowed by plot.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Pippa Bennett-Warner reads Zadie Smith's words brilliantly. I loved every chapter and cried at the end . Thoroughly recommend!

Brilliant !

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
lovely to have a new book from zadie smith. always good to have such a clear insight into someone's world

really enjoyed it

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews