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Fire Rush

By: Jacqueline Crooks
Narrated by: Leonie Elliott
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London, 1978. Yamaye, a woman in her 20s unsure of who she is, but with dreams of being a DJ and MC. Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club in the industrial town on the outskirts of London where she was born and raised.

Everything changes when she falls deeply in love with Moose: he offers the chance of freedom and change. When their relationship is cut brutally short, Yamaye goes on a dramatic journey of transformation that takes her first to Bristol, where she gets caught up in a criminal gang, and then to Jamaica, where past and present collide with devastating consequences.

©2023 Jacqueline Crooks (P)2023 Penguin Audio 20th Century Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance World Literature Heartfelt England

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Critic reviews

"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 re-read it." (Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other)

"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." (Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water)

"A brilliant, exuberant novel. Full of beauty, musicality and feminist power." (Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch)
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Enjoyed the continued suspense Kept me fixed from beginning to end I love anything related to London Reminded me of a club I visited in Bayswater in the Seventies and how I unwittingly came close to the underground hidden life of the time. I see now how I had a narrow escape

Beautiful narration

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the atmosphere and description took my back to years gone by. A great listen, narrator was brilliant

loved this story

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Descriptive, engaging, with tension and suspense. It was hard to put down. I enjoyed it very much.

Great story

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This is a mesmerising book, beautifully read. I could almost smell and taste it.

Gripping, evocative, exhilarating story

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Fabulous story read beautifully, totally immersed me in her life and times in England then Jamaica, I was shaking ma batty.

Fabulous story and narration

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Yammaye is first generation British Caribbean. This novel charts the racism and police brutality, a back drop to life that forced people into to dark corners to find a sense of belonging. It is also a testament as to the lengths some women will go to to survive.

There is a Fire Rush inside us all. We just have to find it.

I particularly recommend the audio edition of this novel as it includes music which brings the narrative to life further.

This is a book you feel and hear as much as read.

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loved the audio. Kept me captivated at wvery chapter. Felt the rhythm and beat of a windrush story within the characters, and historical experience of those that grew up in that era.

Riveting!!!!!

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This poetically written story is exquisitely read and creates atmospheres with the text. It’s a fascinating story that, towards the end, I struggled with

Terrific narration

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the more I read the more I loved this book. I felt absolutely transported to the time its written in, despite the eras and locations being unfamiliar to me.
I found the narration a little stilted at first but less so the more the book went on.
overall I loved it.

beautifully written, captivating story

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Brilliant dialogue, love the connection to the Marroons and knowledge of the herbs. Highlighted many ongoing challenges still faced by the Black community.

Realism

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