About the Author

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Her first collection of stories, FREE LOVE, won the Saltire First Book Award. Her first novel, LIKE, was published in 1997, and her second collection of stories, OTHER STORIES AND OTHER STORIES, in 1999. Her prize-winning novel HOTEL WORLD was published in 2001.

Product Description

A brilliant collection of new short stories by the Booker and Orange prize shortlisted author of HOTEL WORLD. Stories for people who've grown up being told time is running out - and don't want it to...How do you ever know the whole story? How do you ever know even part of the story? How do you find meaning when chance and coincidence could, after all, just be chance and coincidence? In a celebration of connections and missed connections, an inquiry into everything from flies and trees and books to sex, art, drunkenness and love, Smith rewrites the year's cycle into a very modern calendar.