Hubby bought this for me as an un-Christmas present to thank me for doing a lot of child looking after solo in the run up to Christmas. I had actually started another book but put that aside to start this one. I really enjoyed reading it. I think it's my second Zadie Smith book?
It is the story of the narrator (I've only just realised that she is never named) and her friend Tracey. They grow up together on an estate in London, both are dancers but only Tracey has any natural talent. As they grow up, they grow apart. The narrator is the daughter of an ambitious black woman, who becomes an MP, and a white postal worker who lacks ambition. The narrator goes to university and lands herself a job with a record company and then as a PA to a singer, a job that takes her around the world. The novel has a general theme of dance that runs throughout it. But really this is the story of a young woman who has always been in someone else's shadow. Towards the end of the novel she starts to make her own decisions and starts to discover who she is away from the other's shadows.
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