<b>An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North-West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of <i>White Teeth</i> and <i>On Beauty<br><br></i></b>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 twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either...<br><br>Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, <i>Swing Time</i> is a story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them. Moving from North-West London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time.