Fire Rush

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize 2023

 In a scorching story of music, passion and self-discovery, love will set Yamaye free...

It's time to dance, to love, to be free...

'Mesmerising' BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other
'Fabulous' MAGGIE O'FARRELL, author of Hamnet
'Beautiful' CALEB AZUMAH NELSON, author of Open Water

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.

'I was blown away by Fire Rush ... Mesmerising, imaginative and incantatory' — Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

'Wrought with an incredible precision and a musicality which carries every sentence' — Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water