The timeless and unique collection of short stories is Ali Smith's first. 'I love her prose' - Kate Atkinson
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The timeless and unique collection of short stories is Ali Smith's first. 'I love her prose' - Kate Atkinson
Description
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 disconcerts and affirms with the lightest touch, to make us love and live differently.
Awards
Winner of Saltire Literary Award 1995
Winner of Scottish Arts Council Book Award 1995
Critic Reviews
“A sweetly memorable collection ... A major talent - THE TIMESExquisitely delicate, unsentimental observations ... A time for celebration - BERNARD MACLAVERTY”
A sweetly memorable collection ... A major talent - THE TIMES
Exquisitely delicate, unsentimental observations ... A time for celebration - BERNARD MACLAVERTYAbout the Author
Ali Smith won the Saltire First Book of the Year award and a Scottish Arts Council Book Award for FREE LOVE (Virago 1995). She lives in Cambridge and reviews regularly for SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY.
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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
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 disconcerts and affirms with the lightest touch, to make us love and live differently.
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