Caly Recommends... Fire Rush - Jacqueline Crooks

Fire Rush is a mesmerising and rhythmic coming of age story following a young woman's  attempts to escape colonial violence and reconnect with her family roots. Moving between London and Jamaica, this is a beautiful and moving story of love, passion and inherited legacies of violence all masterfully strung together through music, community and dance... A truly exceptional and charged book, I loved it!

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Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club on the outskirts of London. Then everything changes. Yamaye meets Moose, who she falls deeply in love with, and who offers her the chance of freedom and escape.

After their relationship is brutally cut short, Yamaye goes on a dramatic journey of transformation that leads her to Jamaica, where past and present collide with explosive consequences.

‘Mesmerising’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO

‘Scorching… We follow Yamaye through love, loss and peril, as she chases her dreams and connects with her heritage’ GUARDIAN

‘A wonderfully literary, musical and original novel about a culture and era that rarely makes the pages of fiction’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT