A vitally alive and ever-surprising collection of stories from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING author ofHow to be bothand the critically acclaimedSeasonalquartet

'Bold and sensitive. Smith's prose is a joy'Independent

'Captures quiet epiphanies of the extraordinary in the mundane'Sunday Times

'These stories fizz with life'The Times Literary Supplement

Individually lucid and luminous, these tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, expertly inching us closer to the bone, Ali Smith's storytelling has never seemed so necessary, so moving or so joyous.