
WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARDWINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014NOMINATED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015 How to be both is the dazzling award-winning novel by Ali Smith Passionate compassionate vitally inventive & 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 & fictions There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s There's the child of a child of the 1960s Two tales of love & injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless structural gets playful knowing gets mysterious fictional gets real
- & all life's givens get given a second chance ' Brims with palpable joy' Daily Telegraph' She's a genius genuinely modern in the heroic glorious sense' Alain de Botton'I take my hat off to Ali Smith Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard