Girl Meets Boy

'By the time I finished, my heart was beating and tears stood in my eyes, even as I had the biggest smile written all over my face.' Kirsty Gunn, Observer

Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when as old story meets a brand new set of circumstances?

Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful myth is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It's 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.

'Gentle, generous and wonderfully imaginative, this is a joy to read.' Metro

'Girl Meets Boy pulls you in and doesn't let you go. Never afraid of big ideas, morality or politics, Smith's retelling is bold and brilliant -- containing the best sex I've read in years.' Jackie Kay. Observer Books of the Year

'A joyful celebration of life in all its strange shapes, on all sides of the wall.' Jeanette Winterson, The Times

'Ali Smith's exuberant paeans to physical love and emotional attachment are the most infectious verbal explosions I've read in a long time.' Herald