A vitally alive and ever-surprising collection of stories from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet

'Bold and sensitive. Smith's prose is a joy' Independent

Individually lucid and luminous, these tales resonate subtly together.

In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, expertly inching us closer to the bone, Ali Smith's storytelling has never seemed so necessary, so moving or so joyous.

*****

'Captures quiet epiphanies of the extraordinary in the mundane' Sunday Times

'These stories fizz with life' The Times Literary Supplement

About the Author
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women's Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.


Book Information
ISBN 9780141018010
Author Ali Smith
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 138g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 12mm