Zadie Smith: On Beauty

Loved this. Beautifully written with poetic power in the pungently powerful yet brief descriptive passages that pepper the book. The characters are superbly realised through the language with every word counting...and in that important sense this consistently and powerfully poetic writing.

The blurb speaks/sells it as a comic novel which to a degree it is but comic in the way that the best writing is comic as it uses humour of all varieties...farcical, satirical, pitying, situational, ironical etc etc etc to illuminate not just individuals but their lives characters and relationships with each other and then to make, in a non-pretentious manner, often quite profound comments about humans and their extraordinary relationships with each other that show what it is to be fully and truly human.

I think she seems to b a remarkable writer and observer and thinker of humanity. Look forward to more.