THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe unmissable new work from Ali Smith following the dazzling Man Bookershortlisted Seasonal quartetOne day in postBrexit midpandemic 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 shes been left with after shes spent half a day locked in a room by border control officials for no reason she can fathomCurlew or curfew You chooseAnd whats 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 agoAli Smiths 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 possibilitiesAn entertaining and expert portrayal of the world we live in seen by the most beguiling and likeable of novelistic intelligences TelegraphCompanion piece makes you look at the world afresh For me it turned a cold and depressing day into a bright one New StatesmanLONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2022
