Playful, bold, tender . . . in Glyph we see a major British writer answering the call of the day GuardianGhosts dont exist. They dont. End of. Story, however. It is haunting. Everything tells it. It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. Is it imaginary? Is it real?Then it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom. What to do? She phones her sister. In a chiaroscuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, Glyph asks if were attending to the history thats made us and to the history were making. A funny, warm and cleareyed take on where we are now, Glyph is about what our imaginations are for and how, in a broken, brutal and divided time, we rekindle care, solidarity, resistance and openness. This antiwar novel, Ali Smiths most soulful, playful and vital yet, is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world. A standalone novel, its family to Gliff (2024).

Binding: Hardcover;240 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 486 g; Dimensions: 143 x 224 x 27

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