Jacqueline Crooks

Sky City (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Sky City - an estate in North London, 1992. After years in a hostel for young homeless women, Jaycee finally has a room of her own, high up in the sky. But the past is not so easily forgotten and her childhood continues to haunt her. When an old classmate, Sol, reappears, he seems to offer her a lifeline. Sol was her first love, and the only person who looked out for Jaycee when they were kids. Can she trust him now?

Jaycee doesn't wait to find out. Her only friend from the hostel is Ella-G, who has left London for the glamorous world of the New York music scene. She convinces Jaycee to join her for the trip of a lifetime. But the past is never far behind and on a journey into the wetlands of Atlantic City Jaycee is forced to confront the secrets she has been keeping from others, and herself. Back in London, can she find justice and healing, even as Sol, Ella-G and Jaycee's worlds threaten to crash together and splinter apart?

Spellbinding, incantatory and star-spangled, Sky City is a novel about loneliness and friendship, connection and redemption, from the critically acclaimed author of Fire Rush.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529969160
• Artikelnr.: 75840160

Autorenporträt

Jacqueline Crooks grew up in 70s and 80s Southall, part of London's migrant community carving out a space through music, culture and politics. Fire Rush, her first novel, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, Jhalak Prize, Paul Torday Memorial Prize and Author's Club Best First Novel Award. It was also chosen as an Observer Best Debut Novel of the Year. For her short stories, a selection of which was published in the collection The Ice Migration, she has been nominated for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, Wasafiri New Writing Prize and BBC National Short Story Award.