Fire Rush

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Few have channelled so well the skittering beats and transcendent air of dub music as Crooks does in her semi-autobiographical debut... Startlingly vivid reading A hypnotic journey into the dub reggae scene This beautiful, sprawling narrative is wrought with an incredible precision and a musicality which carries every sentence. Crooks' novel haunts but make space for hope as well A colourful, immersive debut... Throughout, a passion and anger resound as we gain a glimpse into a rarely observed British subculture A brilliant, exuberant novel. Full of beauty, musicality and feminist power A scorching, lyrical debut, soaked in dub reggae Remarkable... In terms of sheer lyrical force it stands head and shoulders above most debuts I was blown away by Fire Rush - an exceptional and stunningly original novel by a major new writer... Her mesmerising, imaginative and incantatory writing leaves us swaying to the bass of the visceral rhythms she so powerfully describes. By the end of the novel, I felt charged and changed and already longed to reread it A heady swirl of a novel that pulls the reader in from the first page... A fabulous, absorbing read A window into the dub scene at the time, with rhythmic, lyrical writing and a story about raving, love and the impact of police violence... Both a page turner and a literary novel... Truly remarkable Expand reviews