With How to Be Both, the Baileys women’s prize for fiction winner again successfully plays with form and structure
It is 20 years since Ali Smith began her literary career with a sweetly mischievous short story collection, Free Love and Other Stories. The title piece, in which a teenager has a tender first lesbian experience on the Amsterdam sex tourism trail, was an early example of her talent for quiet surprises. All Smith’s work since has played with form and language; this experimental streak combined with a freshness that stops it ever seeming dry.
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