ISBN: 0735243204 9780735243200

Category: Fiction / Literary

Page count: 240

<b><i>A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2022</i><br><br>“Think of [<i>Companion Piece</i>] as a B-side to the seasonal quartet<i>—</i>more up-to-the-minute observations of our confusing world, more playful language to get lost in.” <i>• </i>ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED BOOKS OF 2022<i>—The National UK, The Guardian, iNews, Financial Times, Daily Mail UK, The Irish Times, Evening Standard, New Statesman, The Scotsman, Waterstones, Book Bar</i><br><br> <br><i>A story is never an answer. A story is always a question.</i></b><br><br>Here we are in extraordinary times. <br>Is this history? <br><br>What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other?<br>What have we lost? <br>What stays with us? <br>What does it take to unlock our future?<br><br>Following her astonishing quartet of Seasonal novels, Ali Smith again lights a way for us through the nightmarish now, in a vital celebration of companionship in all its forms.<br><br><i>Every hello, like every voice, holds its story ready, waiting.</i>