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´There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party . . .´

As time passes by and the consequences of this stranger´s actions ripple outwards, touching the owners, the guests, the neighbours and the whole country, so Ali Smith draws us into a beautiful, strange place where everyone is so much more than they at first appear.

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Hailed among the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2011 by Jeanette Winterson, A.S. Byatt, Patrick Ness, Sebastian Barry, Boyd Tonkin, Erica Wagner...

A sparkling satire from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and WOMEN´S PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet

´Playful, humorous, serious, profoundly clever and profoundly affecting´ Guardian

´Adventurous, intoxicating, dazzling. This is a novel with serious ambitions that remains huge fun to read´ Literary Review

´Smith can make anything happen, which is why she is one of our most exciting writers today´ Daily Telegraph
´There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party . . .´

As time passes by and the consequences of this stranger´s actions ripple outwards, touching the owners, the guests, the neighbours and the whole country, so Ali Smith draws us into a beautiful, strange place where everyone is so much more than they first appear...

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Whimsically devastating. Playful, humorous, serious, profoundly clever and profoundly affecting Guardian

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Smith, Ali
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of many novels, including most recently Autumn, Winter and Spring in the ´Seasonal´ quartet. Her 2014 novel How to be both won the Baileys Women´s Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. She has also been shortlisted once for the Orwell Prize, twice for the Orange Prize and four times for the Man Booker Prize, among many other prizes. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

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