Look at You

This powerful novel in stories follows its young narrator, growing up in a divided family. Shifting between Trinidad, England, and Ireland, she must learn to make sense of herself, and take her place in a world full of contradictions, cruelty and temptation. Look At You grabs the attention elegantly, with sharp dialogue, acuteness of observation, and the joy of meeting complex characters. The frank and engaging narrator, recognising the independent otherness of the people she writes about, has an alert eye for moments of epiphany, absurdity, sadness and comedy.

Amanda Smyth is Irish Trinidadian, and author of three novels. Fortune (2021) was shortlisted for the James Taitt Black Prize, and Black Rock, won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger. An Oprah Winfrey Summer Read, and Waterstones New Voice, she has been nominated for an NAACP award and shortlisted for McKitterick Prize. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in New Writing, London Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, Harvard Review and BBC Radio 4.