Sky City

Sky City – an estate in North London, 1992. After years in a hostel for young homeless women, Jaycee finally has a room of her own, high up in the 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?

Jaycee doesn’t wait to find out. Her only friend from the hostel is Ella-G, who has left London for the glamorous world of the New York music scene. She convinces Jaycee to join her for the trip of a lifetime. But the past is never far behind and on a journey into the wetlands of Atlantic City Jaycee is forced to confront the secrets she has been keeping from others, and herself. Back in London, can she find justice and healing, even as Sol, Ella-G and Jaycee’s worlds threaten to crash together and splinter apart?

Spellbinding, incantatory and star-spangled, Sky City is a novel about loneliness and friendship, connection and redemption, from the critically acclaimed author of Fire Rush.