Girl Meets Boy
- 2 Aug 2018
- 9781786892478
- £9.99
- 176 pp
- 129×198mm
- 1 Apr 2021
- 9781838854492
- £20.99
- 2 hrs 43 min
- 20 Nov 2008
- 9781847673671
- £7.99
- 176 pp
In a few words
A bold and joyous retelling from Ovid’s Metamorphoses by the award-winning, bestselling author of How to be Both
In a few words
A bold and joyous retelling from Ovid’s Metamorphoses by the award-winning, bestselling author of How to be Both
In a few words
A bold and joyous retelling from Ovid’s Metamorphoses by the award-winning, bestselling author of How to be Both
Exuberant . . . Slender, sweet natured and lyrical
Joyful
Jeanette Winterson
The TimesExuberant . . . Slender, sweet natured and lyrical
Joyful
Jeanette Winterson
The TimesExuberant . . . Slender, sweet natured and lyrical
Joyful
Jeanette Winterson
The TimesMore about
the book
Girl meets boy. It’s a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances?
Ali Smith’s remix of Ovid’s most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can’t be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and political, here is a tale of change for the modern world.
The Myths series brings together some of the world’s finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.
More about
the book
Girl meets boy. It’s a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances?
Ali Smith’s remix of Ovid’s most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can’t be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and political, here is a tale of change for the modern world.
The Myths series brings together some of the world’s finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.
More about
the book
Girl meets boy. It’s a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances?
Ali Smith’s remix of Ovid’s most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can’t be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and political, here is a tale of change for the modern world.
Girl Meets Boy pulls you in and doesn't let you go . . . bold and brilliant
Jackie Kay
A glorious wide-awake dream of a book . . . My heart was beating and tears stood in my eyes, even as I had the biggest smile written all over my face
Kirsty Gunn
ObserverPoetic . . . Smith remembers what the ancients knew: that musical words drum a beat through to understanding
Clever, complex and thrilling
Girl Meets Boy pulls you in and doesn't let you go . . . bold and brilliant
Jackie Kay
A glorious wide-awake dream of a book . . . My heart was beating and tears stood in my eyes, even as I had the biggest smile written all over my face
Kirsty Gunn
ObserverPoetic . . . Smith remembers what the ancients knew: that musical words drum a beat through to understanding
Clever, complex and thrilling
Girl Meets Boy pulls you in and doesn't let you go . . . bold and brilliant
Jackie Kay
A glorious wide-awake dream of a book . . . My heart was beating and tears stood in my eyes, even as I had the biggest smile written all over my face
Kirsty Gunn
ObserverPoetic . . . Smith remembers what the ancients knew: that musical words drum a beat through to understanding
Clever, complex and thrilling