Fire Rush: Shortlisted For The Women's Prize 2023

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Love changes everything in Fire Rush, the unforgettable novel about Black womanhood chosen as a Top 10 New Novel in 2023 by the Observer

He takes my hand, pulls me to him. This is our dancing time.

Wrought with an incredible precision and a musicality which carries every sentence Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water

Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club in the industrial town on the outskirts of London where she was born and raised. A young woman unsure of her future, the sound is her guide - a chance to discover who she really is in the rhythms of those smoke-filled nights. In the dance-hall darkness, dub is the music of her soul, her friendships, her ancestry.

But everything changes when she meets Moose, the man she falls deeply in love with, and who offers her the chance of freedom and escape.

When their relationship is brutally cut short, Yamaye goes on a dramatic journey of transformation that takes her first to Bristol - where she is caught up in a criminal gang and the police riots sweeping the country - and then to Jamaica, where past and present collide with explosive consequences.

I was blown away by Fire Rush ... Mesmerising, imaginative and incantatory Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

5* READER REVIEWS:

I will be recommending it to everyone

A phenomenal debut novel

Yamaye is a fantastic central protagonist ... This novel takes you on an emotional and unforgettable journey

This book has it all ... You re immersed into something really special

A stunning debut novel... as relevant to today s racial climate as the 1970s... it felt musical, with dub music almost a secondary character in the novel

About the Author

Jacqueline Crooks grew up in 70s and 80s Southall, part of London s migrant community carving out a space through music, culture and politics. Immersed in the gang underworld as a young woman, she later discovered the power of writing and music to help her look outwards and engage differently with the world - a power that has driven her ever since, from her work with charities to her short stories, which have been nominated for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Wasafiri New Writing Prize and the BBC National Short Story Award.

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