It isn’t ever quite explained, but she seems to have suffered a nervous breakdown or other trauma, and she comes to find sanctuary in the house that once belonged to the girls’ beloved grandparents. Based on Ovid’s story of Iphis, it uses the Scottish city of Inverness as the stage on which to thumb its nose at gender norms.Īnthea moves back to live with her sister Midge after a period of difficulty. I found it charming, if not overwhelming: it’s a sweet story of first love and how to have courage a dreamlike tale of how we love most truly when we love the person rather than the outward shell. However, I hope to exculpate myself now, because I’ve finally embarked on Smith’s oeuvre in the form of Girl Meets Boy, one of the Canongate Myths series. People have been telling me to read Ali Smith for years, but I haven’t yet got round to any of her novels, not even How to Be Both, which has been urged enthusiastically on me by my friend I.
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