SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2014 GOLDSMITHS PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE SALTIRE LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA Best Book of the Year NPR, Financial TimesPassionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smiths novels are like nothing else. Borrowing from paintings fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, How to be both is a novel all about arts versatility. Its a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. Theres a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. Theres the child of a child of the 1960s. 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 lifes givens get given a second chance.
