Jacqueline Crooks Sky City review and information of the content of the London novel by the English author. Jonathan Cap will publish the second Jacqueline Crooks novel on August 6, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.
Jacqueline Crooks Sky City reviews and information
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- “Hypnotically beautiful, almost weightless, Sky City is the literary equivalent of an out-of-body experience. In the best ways it pole-axed me.” (Louise Kennedy)
- “Visceral, shocking, moving – Jacqueline Crooks proves yet again that she is an absolutely fantastic writer.” (Bernardine Evaristo)
Sky City
- Author: Jacqueline Crooks (England)
- Book type: London novel
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape
- To be released: August 6, 2026
- Length: 384 pages
- Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
- Prize: £ 18.99 / £ 8.99 / £ 14.00
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Blurb of the second Jacqueline Crooks novel
A spellbinding portrait of 90s London and three lives brought together by chance, from the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of Fire Rush.
After years in a hostel for young homeless women, Jaycee finally has a room of her own high up in Sky City, a housing estate in north London carved out of the glow-in-the-dark sky. But the past is not so easily forgotten and her childhood continues to haunt her. When an old classmate, Sol, reappears, he seems to offer her a lifeline. Sol was her first love, and the only person who looked out for Jaycee when they were kids. Can she trust him now?
Her best friend from the hostel is Ella-G, who has left London for the glamorous world of the New York music scene. Both Jaycee and Ella-G are daughters in search of fathers. When Jaycee finds a rare record that seems to lead to Ella-G’s father, the two women go searching for answers in Atlantic City. What Jaycee encounters there brings her to the edges of her identity. Back in London, can Jaycee, Sol and Ella-G find justice and healing, even as their worlds threaten to crash together and splinter apart?
Jacqueline Crooks was born in Jamaica and grew up in 70s and 80s Southall, part of London’s migrant community carving out a space through music, culture and politics. Fire Rush, her first novel, was shortlisted for multiple prizes including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and the Jhalak Prize. It won the PEN American Open Book Award and the Paul Torday Memorial Prize. It was also chosen as an Observer Best Debut Novel of the Year. For her short stories, a selection of which was published in the collection The Ice Migration, she has been nominated for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize and BBC National Short Story Award.
