How To Be Both James Blish recalls the friends she made

recalls the friends she made at each key moment in her life - friends who are now desperately trying to find her

a French gambler

are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human

When she is sent to an orphanage at the age of eight

How To Be Both James Blish recalls the friends she madeWinner of the Costa Prize in 2014, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2015, and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double take, it's a fast moving genre bending conversation between forms, times, truths and