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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241993958Number of pages: 240Weight: 170 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Superb,radical,remarkable.'- Mohsin Hamid,The New York Times
'A lockdown story of wayward genius... Lyrical visions alternate with fables and farce,history with Covid,in the scheme-busting fifth part of Smith's seasonal quartet.'- Lucy Hughes-Hallett,The Guardian
Ali Smith
Described by the author Sebastian Barry as'Scotland's Nobel Laureate-in-waiting',Ali Smith is one of Britain's foremost contemporary novelists. Formally and topically experimental,her best known works include: The Accidental,Girl Meets Boy (part of the Canongate Myths series),There But For The,and How to Be Both, which won the Baileys Prize,the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize.
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