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.

“Delicate, beautiful, intensely moving. Her best yet.”
— Claire Adam

“Through a succession of vignettes that quietly build and blossom,
Amanda Smyth has created a marvellous tapestry of a novel.”
— Chloe Aridjis

“Engaging and absorbing... beautifully crafted prose.”
— Amanda Craig

“Worlds open up, understanding is granted, the pages flew by.”
— Jonathan Davidson

“Unfurling with an unassuming grace that belies its cumulative power, Look at You is beguiling, engrossing, penetrating, real.”
— Claire Kilroy

“A beautiful, moving, and cleverly structured collage of a novel.”  
— Neel Mukherjee

“Hypnotic and heartbreaking... this may be 
Amanda Smyth’s best book yet.” 
Paul Murray

“A remarkable novel. I loved it.”
— Monique Roffey

Praise for the author 

'Amanda Smyth writes like a descendant of Jean Rhys...a born novelist'
—Ali Smith 

‘Smyth’s writing is as lushly beautiful as the landscape she describes’
—The Times

‘Like Alice Walker, Smyth vividly and empathetically re-creates gender and racial tensions’
—Elle Magazine