How to be both

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015<BR>WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014<BR>WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD<BR>AN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY SO FAR<BR><BR>'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard<BR><BR>How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s.<BR><BR>Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance.<BR><BR>*****<BR><BR>'Brims with palpable joy' Daily Telegraph<BR><BR>'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton<BR><BR>'A delight. A masterpiece. Magical' Sunday Times<BR><BR>WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014<BR>SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014<BR><BR>Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available now.