Gliff
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By Ali Smith
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The first of two new, interconnected novels from bestselling, award-winning, Booker-Prize shortlisted author Ali Smith
Following her dazzling five-novel portrait of our age, the ‘Seasonal’ sequence, Ali Smith returns with the first of two novels which belong together but can be read independently.
Gliff – a Scots or Northern word for a glimpse, a shock, a glance — will not only tell its own story but also contain within it a hidden story, to be revealed only in a second novel, Glyph – from the Greek, meaning a mark, carving or symbol — to be published a year later.
In form and feeling, Gliff will light a new fabular and fabulist path for Ali Smith and for us through the gathering darkness of our chaotic times.
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Another brilliant novel from Ali Smith who is as playful with words as ever in a story that is both charming and chilling. Set in the near future of a brutal Britain it's a dystopian tale that could be a warning for us all or a message of hope and encouragement to do the right thing in the face of an oppressive regime....Excellent book!
