![]() She studied at the University of Aberdeen and then at Newnham College, Cambridge, for a PhD that she never finished. She was born to working-class parents, raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. Its a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between. ![]() Martina is calling Sandy to ask for help with a mysterious question she's been left with after she's spent half a day locked in a room by border control officials for no reason she can fathom:Īnd what's any of this got to do with the story of a young and talented blacksmith hounded from her trade and her home more than five hundred years ago?Īli Smith's novel takes wing, soaring between our atomised present and our medieval past in the hope we can open our locked down homes and selves to all the other times, other species, other histories, other possibilities. Ali Smith CBE FRSL (born August 1962 in Inverness) is a Scottish writer. 'How To Be Both' is the latest novel by Ali Smith, who's been shortlisted by The Man Booker and Orange Prizes. How to be Both - Ali Smith - Google Books 'The brilliant Booker-nominated novel from one of our finest authors: How to Be Both is a daring, inventive tale that intertwines the stories of a. Borrowing from paintings fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, How to be both is a novel all about arts versatility. One day in post-Brexit, mid-pandemic Britain, artist Sandy Gray receives an unexpected phone call from university acquaintance Martina Pelf. The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet ![]()
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