Review:
Whimsically devastating. Playful, humorous, serious, profoundly clever and profoundly affecting (Guardian)
Remarkable. A brilliant novel: funny, serious, always surprising, always true (The Times)
I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul (Evening Standard)
A playfully serious or seriously playful novel full of wit and pleasure. Wonderful (Observer)
Eccentric, adventurous, intoxicating, dazzling. This is a novel with serious ambitions that remains huge fun to read. The writing dances along (Literary Review)
Poignant, empathetic, funny. A book full of kindness and compassion (Time Out)
Fizzying, affectionate, sparkling. Smith presents her world view in words as fresh as lemons. A joyful read (Herald)
A tour de force (Lionel Shriver Financial Times)
A virtuoso piece of writing, both funny and gripping . . . Smith is a writer with a rich array of conventional strengths (Times Literary Supplement)
A must read (Toronto NOW)
About the Author:
Ali Smith is the author of Free Love and Other Stories, Like, Other Stories and Other Stories, Hotel World, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy, The First Person and Other Stories, There but for the, Artful, How to be both, Public library and other stories and Autumn. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.
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