Keisha The Sket By Jade LB

In print for the first time, Keisha the Sket has lived in the phones and websites of fans for decades. This timeless coming-of-age story is not just a word of mouth sensation but also a British classic in the making.

Where were you when Keisha the Sket first broke the internet?

Keisha is a girl from the ends, sharp, feisty and ambitious; she's been labelled 'top sket' but she's making it work. When childhood crush and long-time admirer, Ricardo, finally wins her over, Keisha has it all: power, a love life and the chance for stability. But trauma comes knocking and with it a whirlwind of choices that will define what kind of a woman she truly wants to be.

Told with the heart and soul of the inner city, with an unforgettable heroine, Keisha the Sket is a revelation of the true, raw, arousing and tender core of British youth culture.

'Keisha the Sket is truly a crucial part of not just Black Brit literature, but British literature as a whole.' - Bolu Babalola

'Our literary foremother.' - Candice Carty-Williams

'Keisha the Sket accidentally decolonised literature.' - Black Ballad

'Reading Keisha the Sket as an adult makes me swoon at the richness of its nostalgia.' - Caleb Femi

'British answer to Gossip Girl.' - Dazed