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It’s lucky Ali Smith has an accommodating publisher. How To Be Both (2014), with its paired narratives, was printed two ways so that some readers read the historical section first, the contemporary second, and others vice versa. Then there was the state-of-the-nation “Seasonal Quartet”, the novels Autumn to Summer responding to Brexit, and the afterthought, Companion Piece. Now Smith has gone further conceptually even than How To … Her new novel Gliff is “in conversation” with the yet-to-be-published Glyph. Is gritted teeth or untold glee the current mood at Hamish Hamilton?
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