EAN: 9780241993958

COMPANION PIECE - ALI SMITH KARTONIERT (TB)

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER    The unmissable new work from Ali Smith  following the dazzling
Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet   One day in post-Brexit  mid-pandemic Britain  artist
Sandy Gray receives an unexpected phone call from university acquaintance Martina Pelf. 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:  '
Curlew or curfew? You choose .'  And 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?  Ali
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.   '[An] entertaining and expert portrayal of the world we live
in  seen by the most beguiling and likeable of novelistic intelligences' Telegraph   '[
Companion piece ] makes you look at the world afresh. For me  it turned a cold and depressing
day into a bright one' New Statesman    LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2022  SHORTLISTED
FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2022

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