Keisha The Sket
  • Published: 14 October 2021
  • ISBN: 9781529119299
  • Imprint: Merky Books Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416

Keisha The Sket

‘A true British classic.’ Stormzy

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14 Oct 2021
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5 Oct 2022
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From cultural icon Jade LB comes the notorious Keisha the Sket, an unforgettable coming-of-age story and a raw and original depiction of British youth culture.

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.

Complete with essays from esteemed contemporary writers Candice Carty-Williams, Caleb Femi and Aniefiok Ekpoudom.
  • Published: 14 October 2021
  • ISBN: 9781529119299
  • Imprint: Merky Books Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416
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About the author

Jade LB

In 2005, the author known only as 'Jade' began releasing chapters of Keisha The [Da] Sket on Piczo. The work became a viral sensation, capturing black British culture and youth-authored youth experience. Jade LB is a London-based creative and academic writer whose writing explores black women and relationships, black British culture and the black British working-class experience. One half of The Echo Chamber podcast, she has written articles and essays for Black Ballad and other publications and currently takes up space in academia. Here, she returns to Keisha The Sket, revisiting and amplifying a character she created when she was just thirteen.

Praise for Keisha The Sket

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

Keisha the Sket has united a nation and rebirthed a generation of readers who were gripped by the tale of a 'top sket'.

The Face

Keisha The Sket feels like an old friend.

Tolly T

A raw portrayal of teenage lust.

The Observer

A cultural phenomenon.

Rolling Stone Magazine

I'm not sure if we knew it at the time, but KTS was decolonising and demystifying literature for a generation.

Theresa Ikoko

The erotic romance thriller.

Vogue

A piece of literary genius.

Complex

Keisha did it first.

Candice Braithwaite

A crucial part of British literature.

Bolu Babalola
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