A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in Free Love are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in them still find connections, words blowing in the street, love in unexpected places. Ali Smith shows how things come together and how they break apart. She disconnects and affirms with the lightest touch, to make us love and live.

'Exquisitely delicate, unsentimental observations . . . a time for celebration' Bernard MacLaverty

'A major talent' The Times

'I love her prose' Kate Atkinson

Winner of the Saltire First Book Award 1995