SKY CITY WITH JACQUELINE CROOKS

Three lives collide by chance in Jacqueline Crooks' lyrical new novel Sky City, a thrilling nineties throwback that plays out on both sides of the Atlantic. It opens in London, as Jaycee finally gets a room of her own - a sanctuary up in the Sky City housing estate - after many precarious years in a homeless hostel. In one sense she's thriving, but the darkness of her childhood follows her like a shadow. When her first love, Sol, reappears offering her a lifeline, she wonders if she can rely on him. Following a revelatory trip to Atlantic City with her best friend Ella-G, another daughter in search of a father, Jaycee comes home to face the traumas of her past as her, Sol and Ella-G's worlds threaten to crash together... and splinter apart.

A Jamaica-born British author now based in Margate, Jacqueline Crooks published her acclaimed debut novel, Fire Rush, in 2023. Alongside her writing, Crooks works with communities to explore the power of storytelling to affect change. She'll be discussing all-things Sky City in conversation with Iman Amrani, an award-winning journalist, writer, producer and moderator.