Zadie Smith reads from her new work, Swing Time and is introduced by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah

Zadie Smith’s new novel, Swing Time, is a dazzlingly energetic and deeply human story about friendship, music and stubborn roots. Her writing is “delightful, painful and spontaneously funny,” wrote Ella Taylor. “It reflects a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite and earnestly open mind that’s busy refining its view of life, literature and a great deal in between.”

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